potassium nitrate

English

Noun

potassium nitrate (uncountable)

1. (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)
• Kashubian: salpéter m
• 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