Crossword-Solution: SALTPETRE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Saltpetre | n. | Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant. |
Anagrams
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| SALTPETRE | anagram | SALTPETER, STEELTRAP |
We have 13 clues for the answer “SALTPETRE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Nitre | 1 answer |
| SALPETRA | 1 answer |
| SALPETRE | 1 answer |
| gunpowder constituent | 1 answer |
| CHILEAN desert produce | 2 answers |
| white crystalline | 2 answers |
| Common name for potassium nitrate | 2 answers |
| MEAT preservative, constituent of | 2 answers |
| MEDICINE, salty substance used in | 2 answers |
| WHITE crystalline salty substance | 2 answers |
| Sodium nitrate. | 3 answers |
| salty substance | 3 answers |
| potassium nitrate | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with SALTPETRE (5)
The Tocsin, having lit the fire, fed it--fed it saltpetre and sulphur--for now Martin Pike was fighting hard.
Hard by, in caverns of the mountain, was one of the five arsenals of the Camisards; where they laid up clothes and corn and arms against necessity, forged bayonets and sabres, and made themselves gunpowder with willow charcoal and saltpetre boiled in kettles.
His hint that saltpetre, sulphur, and charcoal, mixed in certain proportions, would produce effects similar to thunder and lightning, was disregarded or disbelieved; but the legend of the brazen head which delivered oracles, was credited for many ages.
The chemists of China or Europe had found, by casual or elaborate experiments, that a mixture of saltpetre, sulphur, and charcoal, produces, with a spark of fire, a tremendous explosion.
The scholar obtains, by prayer or price, a handful of saltpetre, and then with the knife wherewith he should rather be trying to mend his pens, what does he do but scoop a hole where the desk is some three inches thick.