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noun
Nitre, Niter  n.  
1.
(Chem.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.
2.
(Chem.) Native sodium carbonate; natron. (Obs.) "For though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me."
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 (Bot.), a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.





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... niter, which occurs as a mineral and not as evidence of former animal occupation, it being found in the form of effervescenses on the walls. Dr. Shumard mentions several of this character in Pulaski County, the most noted being Niter Cave, in the Third Magnesian Limestone, with a wide entrance thirty feet ...
— Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills • Luella Agnes Owen


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