How To Use Nitre In A Sentence
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There is nothing concerning which the African traveller should be so particular as water; bitter with nitre, and full of organic matter, it causes all those dysenteric diseases which have made research in this part of the world a Upas tree to the discoverer.
First footsteps in East Africa
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Margaret, with feigned simplicity, but far from being sorry at heart, that she had found an indirect mode of mortifying her monitress.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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His word nitrum (from Latin from Greek nítron) continued on, along with nitre, as names for saltpeter (from sal petrae), i.e., potassium nitrate.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3
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In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat into the consistence of the hardest Castile soap, whereof part remaineth with us. [
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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Priestley found that the same kind of air was to be obtained by moistening with the spirit of nitre (which he terms nitrous acid) any kind of earth that is free from phlogiston, and applying heat; and consequently he says: "There remained no doubt on my mind but that the atmospherical air, or the thing that we breathe, consists of the nitrous acid and earth, with so much phlogiston as is necessary to its elasticity, and likewise so much more as is required to bring it from its state of perfect purity to the mean condition in which we find it.
Science & Education
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Various reflecting surfaces were used: polished metallic rocks such as obsidian, pyrite, and iron; rock crystal; and an alloy of rose copper and tin, plus an alchemical brew consisting of white arsenic, red tartar, and nitre.
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In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat into the consistence of the hardest
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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In this case no red sublimate arose as customarily takes place with that calx which is prepared by the acid of nitre.
Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2
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*** An exsiccated body of a female [33] *** was found at the depth of about 10 feet from the surface of the cave bedded in clay strongly impregnated with nitre, placed in a sitting posture, incased in broad stones standing on their edges, with a flat atone covering the whole.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
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In a Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castle-soap: wherof part remaineth with us.
Archive 2009-06-01
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But it is so discouraging a thing to have my monitress so very good! —
Clarissa Harlowe
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In a Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castle-soap: wherof part remaineth with us.
A Bit of Soap
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You know, nitre is the most important stuff to make powder with.
The New Germany
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‘Caroline,’ said the stern monitress, ‘you are already learning to laugh at principles which have been dear to you since you left your mother’s breast.
He Knew He Was Right
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The C - 8 position of guanine in DNA is the major site of reaction of the potent electrophile acetoxy-IQ, which forms a nitrenium ion, by heterolytic loss of the acetoxy group, as the ultimate DNA-reactive species.
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Mention of this substance is made in (Proverbs 25: 20) -- "and as vinegar upon nitre" -- and in (Jeremiah 2: 26) The article denoted is not that which we now understand by the term nitre i.e. nitrate of Potassa -- "saltpetre" -- but the nitrum of the Latins and the natron or native carbonate of soda of modern chemistry.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Interestingly, therefore, the nitrergic innervation of the thoracic sensory neuropils follows the separation of tactile and proprioceptive pathways found in early mechanosensory processing.
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The book of Ruth embraces the foreign wife, Ruth the Moabitess, and gives her the honorific role of progenitress in King David's lineage.
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They have calculated what quantity of matter convertible into nitre is to be found in Bedford House, in Woburn Abbey, and in what his Grace and his trustees have still suffered to stand of that foolish royalist Inigo Jones, in Covent Garden.
Paras. 60-83
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We think there may have been a single progenitress - a single parasite.
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They have calculated what quantity of matter convertible into nitre is to be found in Bedford House, in Woburn Abbey, and in what his Grace and his trustees have still suffered to stand of that foolish royalist, Inigo
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
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Whisky add one and one-half pounds unslacked Lime, three-fourths of a pound of Alum, and one-half pint Spirits of Nitre.
One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed
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It was musty, cobwebbed, and encrusted with stalactic nitre, but the spirit of rare old vintages exhaled from its depths, and visionary clusters of purplest grapes dangled in every direction.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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I thank Heaven, that hath taught me better thoughts than my own vanity suggested, through the medium of so kind a monitress.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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By ones, twos, and threes her descendants came to mourn over their progenitress.
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The word rankled in her memory even more than the monitress's high-handed manner.
The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life
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In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat into the consistence of the hardest Castile soap, whereof part remaineth with us. [
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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The name derives from the Latin nitrum and Greek nitron for "native soda" and genes for "forming" because of nitrogen's presence in potassium nitrate (KNO), so called salpeter or nitre or native soda.
Nitrogen
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In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat into the consistence of the hardest
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Various reflecting surfaces were used: polished metallic rocks such as obsidian, pyrite, and iron; rock crystal; and an alloy of rose copper and tin, plus an alchemical brew consisting of white arsenic, red tartar, and nitre.
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Here is a question I received in the Q& A box that I keep in the library: As a student at Motswasele I have found that if a teacher can choose you to be the leader like monitor/ monitress student they start rumours or being jealous talking about your self.
Botswana 2008: Last Day of School
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For, alas! my stay, my adviser, my monitress, my directress, is gone! — for ever gone! —
Clarissa Harlowe
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The fame difficulty accounts for the large proportion of nitre required to deflagrate with it completely; a quantity required, not becaufe there is much combuf - tible matter to be burned, but becaufe a long conti - nued and elevated heat is neceiliiry; by which means much of the nitre is decompofed, and its vital air flies off, without having been employed in the combullion, as appears by the two thirds of the elaftic produft, which will fupport the flame of a candle.
The first principles of chemistry
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Their oldest literature shows how large a part the serpent played in the so-called divine age, how it acted as progenitress of the Mikado's ancestry, and how it afforded means of incarnation for the kami or gods.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
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High fans meaning nothing keep the heat down but the nitre keeps burning
Bitter the Sun When It Is in Hades
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This stretch is made possible by the presence of nitrergic inhibitory nerves, excited in a swallow, in both longitudinal muscle layers within this short segment.
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Mention of this substance is made in (Proverbs 25: 20) -- "and as vinegar upon nitre" -- and in (Jeremiah 2: 26) The article denoted is not that which we now understand by the term nitre i.e. nitrate of Potassa -- "saltpetre" -- but the nitrum of the Latins and the natron or native carbonate of soda of modern chemistry.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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- 'Why, it is my daily pleasure now to look out for the little cottage bonnet and the silk scarf glancing through the trees in the lane, and to know that my quiet, shrewd, thoughtful companion and monitress is coming back to me: that I shall have her sitting in the room to look at, to talk to, or to let alone, as she and I please.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Nitre, or saltpetre, is potassium nitrate, the main ingredient of gunpowder.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an example, 0.5 gram of nitre was taken, and 59.4 c.c. of the "bichromate" solution were required.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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She was a worthy progenitress of a long line of most charming women novelists.
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They deflagrate when sprinkled on fused nitre, forming carbonate of potash.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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In a Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castle-soap: wherof part remaineth with us.
A Bit of Soap
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Your cloudiness is an algal bloom rather than bacterial, and is not connected with the Nitrex filter.
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Nitre, or niter, is also used to manufacture gunpowder.
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Cover with a piece of platinum foil, and heat gently with a Bunsen burner till the nitre melts and the stuff shows signs of deflagrating; remove the heat, and allow the action to go on by itself for a minute or so, then heat over the
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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The latter, commonly called cubic nitre or Chile saltpetre, is the kind occurring in Chile.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
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In all appearance it is impregnated with nitre, if not with something more mischievous: we know that mundic, or pyrites, very often contains a proportion of arsenic, mixed with sulphur, vitriol, and mercury.
Travels through France and Italy
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Nitre, or niter, is also used to manufacture gunpowder.
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Mr. Barrow, in his travels through the southern parts, of the continent of Africa, discovered native nitre, which is probably similar ta the rock saltpetre of Kentucky.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
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High fans meaning nothing keep the heat down, but the nitre keeps burning.
It is completed, it is finished
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Thus, upon the whole, the little maiden was disposed to submit, though not without some wincing, to the grave admonitions of the Lady Hermione; and the rather that the mystery annexed to the person of her monitress was in her mind early associated with a vague idea of wealth and importance, which had been rather confirmed than lessened by many accidental circumstances which she had noticed since she was more capable of observation.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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The need to process sewerage and waste in an economical, hygienic and environmentally sound manner, - staving off water borne disease, in sub economic areas as well as at the top end the desire to create an odour-free has been achieved by Sannitree.
Edie.net - Latest News
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Take fluid extract of veratrum, five drops; sweet spirits of nitre, one teaspoonful; pure water, twenty teaspoonfuls; mix, sweeten with white sugar, and give a teaspoonful of the mixture every half-hour to two hours, according to the age of the child and the severity of the case.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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This new wave of hope swept aside the fact that she was the "greenhorn" janitress, that she was twenty-two and dowryless, and, according to the traditions of her people, condemned to be shelved aside as an unmated thing – a creature of pity and ridicule.
Hungry Hearts
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In a Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castle-soap: wherof part remaineth with us.
Archive 2009-06-01
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The name derives from the Latin nitrum and Greek nitron for "native soda" and genes for "forming" because of nitrogen's presence in potassium nitrate (KNO), so called salpeter or nitre or native soda.
Nitrogen
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The Margaret O'Carroll already mentioned, a descendant and progenitress of illustrious women, rode privately to Trim, as we are told, with some English prisoners, taken by her husband,
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
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We use biblical nitre regularly in our home.
Times, Sunday Times
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The women of any clan are the progenitresses, the foremothers who should be honored along with the sires.
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Some are said to contain nitre, a proof of which is shown by their frequent decrepitation when thrown on the fire.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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She, my monitress, my guide, my counsel, gone, for ever gone! by whose advice and instructions I hoped to acquit myself tolerably in the state to which I could not avoid entering.
Clarissa Harlowe
