Associations to the word «Niter»

Wiktionary

NITER, noun. (obsolete) Sodium carbonate.
NITER, noun. (US) (chemistry) A mineral form of potassium nitrate used in making gunpowder.

Dictionary definition

NITER, noun. (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope