Prov 25: 20; Jer 2: 22] A salt, called also salt-peter[ stone-salt.] In modern nomenclature, nitrate of potash. It is a white substance, and has an acrid, bitterish taste.
or niter: potassium nitrate, KNO3 ( saltpeter). Black gunpowder was made from nitre, charcoal, and sulfur. [ Cavendish, Mayow, Priestley, Rayleigh, Watt, et al.]. Chile ...: sodium nitrate, NaNO3. mercurial ...: mercuric nitrate, Hg(NO3)2 [ Scheele] Norwegian ...: calcium nitrate, Ca(NO3)2 rough ...: magnesium chloride, MgCl2 spirit of ...: See spirit.