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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne