calcium nitrate

American  

noun

1. a white, deliquescent solid, Ca(NO3 ) 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, fireworks, matches, and explosives.

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Example Sentences

Consider, for example, mixing aqueous solutions of the soluble compounds sodium carbonate and calcium nitrate.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

For example, Professor MacDougal, by treating the germ-cells of the evening primrose with various solutions, such as sugar, zinc sulphate and calcium nitrate, has apparently succeeded in producing definite germinal mutations.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.

It rests upon the tendency of the earth floors of dwellings to become heavily charged with calcium nitrate through the natural processes of nitrification.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

He leaches the soil removed, to recover the calcium nitrate, and then pours the leachings through plant ashes containing potassium carbonate, for the purpose of transforming the calcium nitrate into the potassium nitrate or saltpeter.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

The result is, sir," answered Herzog, meek and cowed under this harrying, "that calcium nitrate is produced, a very excellent fertilizer.

From The Air Trust by England, George Allan