potassium nitrate

English

Noun

potassium nitrate (uncountable)

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

Synonyms

(KNO₃): E252 (as a preservative), nitre, saltpetre, saltpeter

Translations

KNO₃

Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܫܵܘܪܵܐ (šōrā)
Armenian: բորակ (hy) (borak)
Bulgarian: поташ m (potaš)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 硝石 (zh) (xiāoshí)
Danish: kaliumnitrat c or n, salpeter (da) c or n
Dutch: kaliumnitraat (nl) n
Esperanto: kalia nitrato, salpetro
Finnish: kaliumnitraatti, kalisalpietari (fi), salpietari (fi)
French: salpêtre (fr) m, salpêtre du Chili (fr) m, nitre
German: Salpeter (de) m, Kalisalpeter m
Hindi: शोरा (hi) (śorā)
Hungarian: kálium-nitrát (hu), salétrom (hu), salétromsó
Icelandic: saltpétur m, kalínítrat n, kalísaltpétur m, kalíumnítrat n
Indonesian: kalium nitrat, salpeter (id)
Italian: salnitro (it) m
Japanese: 硝石 (ja) (しょうせき, shōseki), 硝酸カリウム (shōsan kariumu)
Khmer: ផ្កាក្រាម (pkaa kraam)
Lao: ເຈຍ (lo) (chīa)
Latin: sal petrae
Maori: konurehu pākawa ota
Mongolian: шүү (mn) (šüü)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: salpeter m

Nynorsk: salpeter m
Ottoman Turkish: كوهرچله (güherçile)
Persian: شوره (fa) (šure)
Plautdietsch: Soltpeeta m
Portuguese: salitre (pt)
Quechua: qullpa
Romanian: azotat de potasiu (ro) m
Russian: сели́тра (ru) f (selítra)
Swedish: salpeter (sv) c
Tagalog: salitre
Telugu: పొటాషియం నైట్రేటు (poṭāṣiyaṁ naiṭrēṭu)
Thai: โพแทสเซียมไนเตรต, ดินประสิว (th) (din-bprà-sǐu)
Turkish: güherçile (tr), potasyum nitrat

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