sodium nitrate

1. 1.

   (NaNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive

   Synonymssoda niter

   Broadernitrate

Questions about sodium nitrate

What does sodium nitrate mean?

sodium nitrate means "(NaNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive".

What is another word for sodium nitrate?

Close synonyms include soda niter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sodium nitrate a common word?

sodium nitrate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.