potassium nitrate

potassium nitrate

English

Noun

potassium nitrate (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) KNO₃, a naturally occurring salt used in the production of nitric acid HNO₃, as a food preservative, in toothpaste for sensitive gums and as an ingredient of gunpowder.

Synonyms

• E252, when used as a preservative
• nitre
• saltpetre, saltpeter

Translations

potassium nitrate

Chinese: Mandarin: 硝石 (zh) (xiāoshí) Danish: kaliumnitrat c or n, salpeter (da) c or n Finnish: salpietari (fi) French: salpêtre (fr) m, salpêtre du Chili (fr) m, nitre German: Salpeter (de) m, Kalisalpeter m Hungarian: kálium-nitrát, salétrom (hu) Icelandic: saltpétur m, kalínítrat n, kalísaltpétur m, kalíumnítrat n Japanese: 硝石 (しょうせき, shōseki), 硝酸カリウム (shōsan kariumu) Khmer: ផ្កាក្រាម (pkaa kraam) Lao: ເຈຍ (lo) (chīa)

Norwegian: Bokmål: salpeter m Nynorsk: salpeter m Persian: شوره‎ (fa) (šure) Portuguese: salitre (pt) Quechua: qullpa Russian: сели́тра (ru) f (selítra) Swedish: salpeter (sv) c Telugu: పొటాషియం నైట్రేటు (poṭāṣiyaṃ naiṭrēṭu) Thai: โพแทสเซียมไนเตรต, ดินประสิว Turkish: güherçile (tr), potasyum nitrat