nitrate de potassium

Traductions

• anglais

  Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française, 1987

  Définition

  A soluble crystalline salt KNO₃ with a cooling saline taste that occurs as a product of nitrification in most arable soils especially in hot dry countries where it is extracted by leaching but that is usually made by reaction of potassium chloride and sodium nitrate, that decomposes on strong heating into potassium nitrite KNO₂ and oxygen, ((...)).

  Note :

  Used chiefly in making black powder, matches, and fireworks and in curing meat.

  Terme :

  1. potassium nitrate