Saltpetre is valid Scrabble Word

Is saltpetre a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for SALTPETRE in dictionary:

NOUN:

potassium nitrate, the chief constituent of gunpowder, also SALTPETER
a white crystalline salt which occurs naturally in nitre and is used in preserving meat and as a constituent of gunpowder.
compound used in gunpowder and as a preservative
Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant.
(KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive

Words related to SALTPETRE

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Words that contain SALTPETRE

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How to use SALTPETRE in a sentence

Bragg held in quite as much awe as some men dread salt-petre.
In the neighbourhood of Morocco, saltpetre is found.
Saltpetre is often sprinkled on, in making cigars, to improve their burning.
Bowles, in his Introduction to the Natural History of Spain, assures us there is enough saltpetre in that country to supply all Europe for ever.
Next came a plate of salt meat, red with saltpetre, and another of dark, dry, sodden bread.
Two ounces of raw sugar must be mixed with an ounce of common salt and half a spoonful of saltpetre.
On its banks are a number of saltpetre caves, and it is believed some mines of lead in the vicinity.
It is obtained by the distillation of saltpetre with sulphuric acid.
Sheets of good light paper are to be steeped in a solution of saltpetre, in the proportions of two ounces of the salt to one pint of water, to be afterwards thoroughly dried.
The good town craved of Pothon de Xaintrailles, who commands there, to send them what saltpetre he could spare for making gunpowder.

Through this earth water is filtered, and being afterwards suffered to evaporate the saltpetre is found at the bottom of the vessel.
A Mexican had been for six years engaged there in digging out saltpetre, with which he made powder, and the cave was much spoiled for research when I visited it.
But I was able to take away some thirty well-preserved skulls and a few complete skeletons, the bodies having dried up in the saltpetre.
He came back from Algiers with the sickness heavy upon him, caught in the saltpetre marshes that stretch between Biskra and Touggourt.
A third bill was passed to enable his majesty to restrain the exportation of naval stores, saltpetre, arms, and ammunition, after which Mr.
Spare match, newly soaked in saltpetre water, lay coiled in a little tub beside the gun.
The nitric acid unites with the lime, and forms nitrate of lime, or with soda to form nitrate of soda, or with potash to form nitrate of potash, or salt-petre.
Passing from these considerations not unconnected with the subject, let us inquire what saltpetre is, and how it is formed.
In this decomposition of animal remains and the formation of saltpetre the air performs an important part, and the changes it effects are worthy of our attention.
It may be calculated that the flesh of animals, free from bone, carefully decomposed, will afford ninety-five pounds of saltpetre for one thousand pounds thus consumed.
In this country there are numerous caves of great extent in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, from which saltpetre has been manufactured.
When soda saltpetre in proper proportion is dissolved and thus mixed with potash salt, an exchange of bases takes place, and no loss of alkaline energy follows.
Having now found what saltpetre is and how it is formed, let us advance to the consideration of it as a source of power.
The value and importance of saltpetre as a source of power is seen in the adaptation of its explosive force to special purposes.
Its connection with the latter was principally on account of the saltpetre, which it furnished for making gunpowder.
Powder was likewise easily made in great abundance, as saltpetre is to be had in every part of that country of excellent quality.
Several of these side halls are now used as workshops by rope-makers, while in others the manufacture of saltpetre is carried on.
Its salt-petre caves are most astonishing curiosities.
The gunpowder used to be manufactured of saltpetre, sulphur, and charcoal, the three ingredients being pounded together in a mortar.
But beets, strangely enough, require the genuine Chilean saltpetre to produce their maximum of sugar.
He applies saltpetre in a finely-powdered state, dusted over the tree when wet with rain or dew.
It was Paris now that awaited him, feverish Paris, burning with anger and odorous of saltpetre.
In food preparations girls who clean and pack fish get blistered hands and fingers from the saltpetre employed by the fishermen.
Saltpetre, when heated with substances easy of oxidation, yields its oxygen quite readily, and is, therefore, a powerful means of oxidation.

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