It is known that alum and nitre are employed separately in aqueous solution, to preserve anatomical preparations, during the time of their fabrication.
Dissolve one ounce of pure silver in acid of nitre very pure and moderately strong; mix this solution with about twenty ounces of distilled water; add to this two ounces of mercury, and let it remain at rest.
Against the pain of the teeth it would be beneficial to use common salt dissolved in vinegar, or nitre in wine.
Sea salt and nitre are of use, according to Pliny, against various maladies of the teeth and mouth.
The rubbing of the blackened teeth with burnt nitre gives them back their natural color.
In making rockets, it is essential, above all things, to have good nitre and charcoal.
It has already been stated that nitre in powder is sometimes adulterated with salt, and that it is impossible to make a rocket with such stuff.
Have the nitre as fine as possible, and dry it over the fire in a 6-inch frying pan, which should be kept for the purpose.
In this case you must buy the nitre in crystals, and the charcoal in sticks.
Powdered chlorate of potash is sometimes adulterated with nitre: with such mixture it is equally impossible to produce good colours: nitre whitens flame, and overpowers colour.
I am sorry I cannot subscribe to the Opinion of those Learned Gentlemen, who imagine Nitre to be essential to Plants; and that nothing in the Vegetable Kingdom is transacted without it.
One-half teaspoonful sweet spirits of nitre in one-third glass of water, for baby.
Hare recommends the following at the beginning if there is fever: Tincture of Aconite 3 drams Sweet Spirits of Nitre 1 ounce Solution of Citrate of Potash enough to make 6 ounces Mix.
Nitre should never under any pretext be added to the drink.
Oh, we always keep nitreon hand," and Mrs. Jason helped Mr. Brown give some to the lad.
But if you have any sweet spirits of nitre in the house I'll give him that to quiet him and keep down the fever.
The acid vapours let loose on burning nitre and sulphur together, remain a long time suspended in the air[74].
The greater or less strength of these powders depends on the proportion of sulphur and nitre to the other ingredients.
Perhaps a quantity of pure charcoal reduced to a very fine powder and mixed with the solution of nitre in which they are dipped would render them still more inflammable.
And they generate a salt juice in the stomach, because it has been already shown that they contain something of nitre in them: and they will make that food taste rather salt and harsh which is combined with them.
For God sees iniquity in all men; nor can all the nitre or soap in the world cause that our iniquity should not be marked before God (Jer 2:22).
The best examples of these solid oxidizing agents are potassium nitrate (nitre or saltpetre) and chlorate; and these are of the first importance in the manufacture of fireworks.
The water, Pococke observes, is of a disagreeable muddy taste, and almost as salt as the sea, which quality it probably contracts from the nitrethat is in the earth, and the salt which is every year left in the mud.
A particular kind of ablution is made to pass through the body, which is afterwards left in nitre for the above seventy days, and then returned.
Upward of two thousand years ago, perhaps three, a company of merchants, who had a cargo of nitre on board their ship, were driven by the winds on the shores of Galilee, close to a small stream that runs from the foot of Mount Carmel.
Could not have done better much, except would have given a combination of Antimony, Ipecacuanha, and Nitre at first, i.
Give her a little Nitre in water, and a dose of Calomel, four grains or thereabouts, followed by salts or aloes.
Heat a littlenitre in a fire-shovel, sprinkle on it flour of sulphur, and it will instantly burn.
Nitre was undoubtedly one of the most important of its constituents; though no allusion whatever is ever made.
We do not know when nitrate of potash, the nitre of the moderns, became known in Europe.
Neither was he more successful in his attempt to account for the origin of the red vapours which are exhaled from nitre in certain circumstances.
On most parts of the continent nitre is manufactured from what are called nitre beds, these consist of old mortar and other matters containing lime, as the dry rubbish from old building, &c.
There is a great lake of nitre in the desert of Egypt, which extends from lake Moeris to the entrance of the Delta; and it has no other name than the Nitre Lake.
It is desirable to reduce the temperature of the substances previously, if convenient, by placing the vessels in water, with nitre powder thrown in occasionally.
He expresses his opinion that the same kind of air would be obtained by heating nitre without addition, and this opinion is founded on the fact that when nitre is detonated with charcoal it gives out abundance of carbonic acid gas.
The perusal of this book first gave me a taste for experimenting, myself; and I very well remember, that upon mixing some oil of cloves and smoking spirit of nitre together, they took fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nitre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
