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niter

The English word “niter” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder.
  2. Native sodium carbonate; natron.

Etymology

From Middle English niter, nitere, nitre, nytre, from Old French nitre, from Latin nitrum (“native soda, natron”), from Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron). Ultimately from Egyptian nṯrj (“natron”). Doublet of natron and trona. Compare also natrium, nitrogen. Compare reconstructed Proto-Germanic *lauþrą (“nitre”) related to Modern English lye.

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