saltpetre
Saltpetre is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter S and ends with the letter E for which we found 1 definitions.
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| (n.) Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance KNO3 having a cooling saline taste obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification 2). It is a strong oxidizer is the chief constituent of gunpowder and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat and in medicine as a diuretic diaphoretic and refrigerant. |
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