Potassium nitrate

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
E252
Pronunciation
/pəˈtæsiəm ˈnaɪˌtreɪt/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Food Additives

Examples in Context

  1. Potassium nitrate(E252), potassium sulphate and potassium chloride are potassium salts.
  2. Gunpowder is composed of sulfur, carbon, and potassium nitrate.
  3. A kind of black or brown explosives, the potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur mechanical mixture.
  4. What are you doing with potassium nitrate?
  5. A capillary electrophoretic method for the determination of the trace sulfate ion in liposome doxorubicin has been developed with potassium nitrate as the background electrolyte.