Nitre

[naitә]

解释:

(n.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.

(n.) Native sodium carbonate; natron.

(n.) See Niter.

吉纳维芙校对

同义词及近义词：

n. [Written also Niter.] Saltpetre, nitrate of potash.

埃迪校对

解释:

n. the nitrate of potash—also called Saltpetre.—n. Nī′trāte a salt of nitric acid.—adjs. Nī′trāted combined with nitric acid; Nī′tric pertaining to formed from or containing or resembling nitre.—n. Nī′tric ac′id an acid got by distilling a mixture of sulphuric acid and nitrate of sodium—it acts powerfully on metals and is known by the name of Aqua-fortis.—adj. Nitrif′erous nitre-bearing.—n. Nitrificā′tion.—v.t. Nī′trify to convert into nitre.—v.i. to become nitre:—pr.p. nī′trifying; pa.t. and pa.p. nī′trified.—ns. Nī′trite a salt of nitrous acid; Nī′tro-ben′zol a yellow oily fluid obtained by treating benzol with warm fuming nitric acid—used in perfumery and known as Essence of mirbane; Nī′tro-glyc′erine a powerfully explosive compound produced by the action of nitric and sulphuric acids on glycerine—sometimes used in minute doses as a medicine.—adjs. Nitrose′ Nī′trous resembling or containing nitre.—n. Nī′trous ox′ide a combination of oxygen and nitrogen called also Laughing gas which causes when breathed insensibility to pain.—adj. Nī′try of or producing nitre.—Cubic nitre nitrate of soda so called because it crystallises in cubes.

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