nitre

• It was composed posed of laudanum, nitre, and other savoury drugs, which procured me sleep till now: have no headache; must eat breakfast, and away to court as fast as possible. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
• Maybe it's that final jingling of bells on the jester's hat that Fortunato wears as he's being entombed in a cold, slimy, nitre-filled catacomb of a very unhappy narrator who's been wronged and insulted. —  A Work in Progress
• Naturally, nitre itself comes in for serious thought and the explosibility of the mixture of charcoal, nitre and sulphur arrests the author's attention, for he emphasizes the fact that, independent of the formation of gases or airs, the agency of caloric, or matter of heat, generated in the process of combustion, considerably facilitates the strength of the powder, in consequence of producing the expansion of these airs Recently, under the pressure of a national necessity, which will not soon be forgotten, the problem of getting nitre--nitrates and kindred bodies--had the earnest attention of chemists. —  James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823
• What circumstances are necessary to produce nitre, and how does animal matter act in its production? —  James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823
• He took equal parts of cuttle bone, small white sea-shells, pumice stone, burnt stag's horn, nitre, alum, rock salt, burnt roots of iris, aristolochia, and reeds. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages

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