Natron Definition

nātrŏn, -trən
noun
Hydrated sodium carbonate, Na2CO310H2O.
Webster's New World

Origin of Natron

  • French from Spanish natrón from Arabic naṭrūn niter from Greek nitron niter

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French natron, from Arabic نطرون (naTruun), from Ancient Greek νίτρον (nitron, “nitre").

    From Wiktionary

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.

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