Niter
Niter , noun
[French nitre, Latin nitrum native soda, natron, Greek {not transcribed}; compare Arabic nitūn, natrūn natron. Compare Natron.]
1.
(Chemistry) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.
2.
(Chemistry) Native sodium carbonate; natron. [Obsolete]
For though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me.
Collocations (2)
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 (Botany) , a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.
Also: Nitre