单词 | aphronitre |
释义 | ˈaphronitre ? Obs. [ad. L. aphronitrum, a. Gr. ἀϕρόνιτρον, better ἀϕρὸς νίτρου, spuma nitri.] ‘Foam of nitre’; a name formerly applied to the sulphur salts of various alkalis and earths.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. lxix. (1495) 575 The fome of Nitrum hyghte Affronitum. 1601Holland Pliny (1634) II. 421 The ægyptian Aphro-nitre or Salt-petre. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v., Some modern naturalists rather take the antient Aphronitre to have been a native salt-petre. |

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