This process has been made possible by the discovery of the Chili niter beds and the potassium chloride of the Stassfurt deposits.
Thus, nitrogen means the producer of niter, nitrogen being a constituent of niter or saltpeter.
White flux is the residuum of the combustion of a mixture of equal parts of niter and tartar.
Black flux is the ressiduum of the combustion of one part of niter and two of tartar, and consists essentially of a mixture of potassium carbonate and charcoal.
Sweet spirit of niter is a serviceable remedy to use at the beginning: five to fifteen drops every two hours in water for a child from one to ten years of age, for the first day or two.
If there is fever with the cold, five drops of sweet spirit of niter may be given in a teaspoonful of sweetened water every two hours.
We therefore conclude, that either the niter or the small excess of potassium bromide, or both together, produce the change.
On his recommendation a niter and mining bureau was organized, and Colonel St. John, who had been hitherto assigned to duty in connection with procuring supplies of niter and iron, was appointed to be chief of this bureau.
At the close of 1864 there were two million eight hundred thousand feet of earth collected, and in various stages of nitrification, of which a large proportion was presumed to yield one and a half pound of niter per foot of earth.
A refinery of saltpeter was established near Nashville during the summer, which received the niter from its vicinity, and from the caves in East and Middle Tennessee.
Niter was contemporaneously sought for in north Alabama and Tennessee.
There were the two powder-mills above mentioned, but we had no experience in making powder, or in extracting niter from natural deposits, or in obtaining it by artificial beds.
The niter was obtained from lixiviation of nitrous earth found under old houses, barns, etc.
The liability of powder to deteriorate in damp atmospheres results from the impurity of the niter used in its manufacture, and this it is not possible to detect by any of the usual tests.
Not only was powder made of every variety of grain and exact uniformity in each, but the niter was so absolutely purified that there was no danger of its deterioration in service.
Thus the niter production, in the course of a year, was brought up to something like half of the total consumption.
Niter was to be obtained from caves and other like sources, and by the formation of niter-beds, some of which had previously been begun at Richmond.
Niter mixed with common salt, placed upon burning charcoal, and water added, produce a stronger explosion than salt alone.
Anthracite coal and niterheated in a crucible exploded when sea water was poured on them.
It may even be that explosions happening from steam acting in close spaces may have been attributed to gunpowder, or to niter and other salts, separate, but suddenly caused to combine in chemical reaction.
An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification.
Black flux is the ressiduum of the combustion of one part of niter and two of tartar, and consists essentially of a mixture of potassium carbonate and charcoal.
Note: White flux is the residuum of the combustion of a mixture of equal parts of niterand tartar.
Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur.
Defn: An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification.
Aconite may be given in conjunction with the niter when the heart is greatly excited and beats strongly.
One-dram doses of nitrate of potash or 1-ounce doses of sweet spirits of niter are useful in the drinking water.
Sudden attacks will sometimes promptly subside if taken on the instant and the subject kept still and calmed by a dose of bromid of potassium (4 drams) and sweet spirits of niter (1 ounce).
Usually theniter will relieve the constipation; yet if it should prove obstinate, laxatives may be carefully given.
If at the end of the fifth or sixth day prominent symptoms of recovery are not apparent, apply a stiff blister of cantharides around the coronet and omit the niter for about 48 hours.
I refer to a sort of cloudy whitish pattern on the dirt floor--a vague, shifting deposit of mold or niter which we sometimes thought we could trace amidst the sparse fungous growths near the huge fireplace of the basement kitchen.
This I felt was the clue, and again I looked at the floor before the fireplace where the mold and niter had taken strange forms.
Duplicate and triplicate lists to be furnished as above directed in the Ordnance Bureau, and will in the same manner turn over one-fifth of all such men now employed in the Niter service.
St. John, Chief Mining andNiter Bureau, has been nominated as the new Commissary-General.
By a report from the Niter and Mining Bureau, it appears that thirteen furnaces of the thirty odd in Virginia have ceased operations.
The Chief of the Niter and Mining Bureau will, in like manner, turn over, on similar lists, one-fifth of all men of the classes specified in General Order No.
He established artificial niter beds at Richmond, Columbus, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and Selma of sufficient capacity to supply the niterneeded in the powder mills.
He created artificialniter beds, from which sufficient saltpeter was obtained, and within a year was furnishing the finest powder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "niter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
