nitre

How to use nitre in a sentence

• A poor cigar irritates the throat aside from the regular effect of the tobacco, especially if there is much nitre in the wrapper.

  Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley

• This is a compound, of which sweet spirit of nitre is an impure alcoholic solution.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

• nitre also enters into the composition of pulvis fulminans, viz.

  Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry | Joseph Priestley

• In fact, the charcoal burns so rapidly by means of the dephlogisticated air supplied by the nitre.

  Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry | Joseph Priestley

• When fully saturated, this solution deposits crystals, which are called lunar nitre, or nitre of silver.

  Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry | Joseph Priestley