French from Spanish natrónfrom Arabic naṭrūnniterfrom Greek nitronniter
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Frenchnatron, from Arabicنطرون (naTruun), from Ancient Greek νίτρον (nitron, “nitre").
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Natron Sentence Examples
The oldest and best known of these are the Natron lakes in Lower Egypt.
A chain of natron lakes (seven in number) lies in a valley in the western desert, 7oto 90 m.
The first is that of the natron lakes already mentioned.
The fire may well have caused the natron, an impure form of carbonate of soda, to combine with the surrounding sand to form silicate of soda, which, although not a permanent glass, is sufficiently glass-like to suggest the x11.4 FIG.
The story that Phoenician merchants found a glass-like substance under their cooking pots, which had been supported on blocks of natron, need not be discarded as pure fiction.