Niter /(?)/
Ni·ter
Niter
n.
- A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter. (Chem.)
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Native sodium carbonate; natron. (Chem.) [Obs.]
For though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me.
Phrases & Compounds
- Cubic niter
- a deliquescent salt, sodium nitrate, found as a native incrustation, like niter, in Peru and Chile, whence it is known also as Chile saltpeter.
- Niter bush
- a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.