potassium nitrate

English

Noun

potassium nitrate (uncountable)

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

Synonyms

E252, when used as a preservative
nitre
saltpetre, saltpeter

Translations

potassium nitrate

Chinese:
Mandarin: 硝石 (zh) (xiāoshí)
Danish: kaliumnitrat c or n, salpeter (da) c or n
Finnish: salpietari (fi)
French: salpêtre (fr) m, salpêtre du Chili (fr) m, nitre
German: Salpeter (de) m, Kalisalpeter m
Hungarian: kálium-nitrát, salétrom (hu)
Icelandic: saltpétur m, kalínítrat n, kalísaltpétur m, kalíumnítrat n
Japanese: 硝石 (しょうせき, shōseki), 硝酸カリウム (shōsan kariumu)
Khmer: ផ្កាក្រាម (pkaa kraam)
Lao: ເຈຍ (lo) (chīa)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: salpeter m

Nynorsk: salpeter m
Persian: شوره‎ (fa) (šure)
Portuguese: salitre (pt)
Quechua: qullpa
Russian: сели́тра (ru) f (selítra)
Swedish: salpeter (sv) c
Telugu: పొటాషియం నైట్రేటు (poṭāṣiyaṃ naiṭrēṭu)
Thai: โพแทสเซียมไนเตรต, ดินประสิว
Turkish: güherçile (tr), potasyum nitrat

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