niter : Idioms & Phrases

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Cubic niter

  • a deliquescent salt, sodium nitrate, found as a native incrustation, like niter, in Peru and Chili, whence it is known also as Chili saltpeter.
Webster 1913

Niter bush

  • (Bot.), a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.
Webster 1913

Soda niter

  • noun (NaNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive
    sodium nitrate.
WordNet
  • . See Nitratine.
Webster 1913

Sweet spirit of niter

  • . See Spirit of nitrous ether, above.
Webster 1913

Sweet spirits of niter

  • (Med. Chem.) See Spirit of nitrous ether, under Spirit.
Webster 1913