nitre in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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nitre in the PONS Dictionary

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It is used as tinder (especially after being pounded flat, and boiled or soaked in a solution of nitre) and also used when smouldering as a portable firelighter.
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So, "clyssus of antimony" is produced by distillation from antimony, nitre, and sulfur mixed together.
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Some contended an absolute minimum temperature occurred within earth (as one of the four so-called elements), others within water, others air, and some more recently within nitre.
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The nitre being drawn off, the remaining matter is wetted with spirit of wine, and the spirit burnt away.
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This is dissolved in spirit of nitre, by gently pouring it on till the ebullition ceases.
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It is then dissolved in spirit of nitre (nitric acid), and distilled three times.
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During smelting iron can be oxidized using nitre.
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Brown gunpowder is cited as composed of 79% nitre, 3% sulfur, and 18% charcoal per 100 of dry powder, with about 2% moisture.
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The cave was used since before 1835 as a source for nitre (saltpeter) for the manufacture of gunpowder.
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Ingredients that were sometimes added were ground myrrh, nitre and hartshorn.
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