Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sodium nitrate

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English

Syllables: sodi-um ni-trate
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

the sodium salt of nitric acid, NaNO₃; used as a food preservative, and as an oxidizing agent in explosives such as sodatol.

Uncountable

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

caliche Chile saltpetre soda niter E251 when used as a preservative

Questions

What does sodium nitrate mean?: the sodium salt of nitric acid, NaNO₃; used as a food preservative, and as an oxidizing agent in explosives such as sodatol.

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