Potassium nitrate
Key Facts
Abbreviation
E252
Pronunciation
/pəˈtæsiəm ˈnaɪˌtreɪt/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Food Additives
Examples in Context
- Potassium nitrate(E252), potassium sulphate and potassium chloride are potassium salts.
- Gunpowder is composed of sulfur, carbon, and potassium nitrate.
- A kind of black or brown explosives, the potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur mechanical mixture.
- What are you doing with potassium nitrate?
- 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.