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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).
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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
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