Definition of Natron

1. n. Native sodium carbonate.

Definition of Natron

1. Noun. (minerology) A crystalline mixture of hydrous sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, with the chemical formula Na2CO3'''·'''10H2O. ¹

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Definition of Natron

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Medical Definition of Natron

1. Native sodium carbonate. Alternative forms: anatron. Origin: F, fr. Sp. Natron, Ar. Natrun, nitrun. Cf. Niter, Anatron. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Natron

natriuretic hormone
natriuretics
natro-
natroalunite
natroalunites
natrobistantite
natrochalcite
natrodufrenite
natrofairchildite
natroglaucocerinite
natrojarosite
natrolemoynite
natrolite
natrolites
natromontebrasite
natron (current term)
natronambulite
natroniobite
natronobacterium
natronococcus
natrons
natrophilite
natrophosphate
natrosilite
natrotantite
natroxalate
nats
natter
nattered
natterer

Literary usage of Natron

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by Robert Jameson (1820)
"Same as those of Common natron. Constituent Parts. Water of Crystallization, - 22.50 J •• Carbonic Acid, - 38.00 Pure Soda, - - 37.00 Sulphate of Soda, ..."

2. Zeitschrift Für Kristallographie, Kristallgeometrie, Kristallphysik (1905)
"... in dem natron und Thonerde haltigen Pyroxen zurückgeführt. Durch Aufnahme voa ^6'iOj entsteht daraus Albit. Die übrigen Bestandteile des ..."

3. Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798. by William George Browne (1799)
"TERANE TO THE natron LAKES. Government of Terant—Carlo ... there—Remarks on natron—Coptic Convents and MSS.—Proceed to Kahira. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... the natron of the ancient«, viz, the native salt which is found crystallized in Egypt and other hot countries in gands surrounding lakes of gait water. ..."

5. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"09), and steeping the body for the usual number of days in natron. ... by natron. The first of these are filled with a mixture of resin and aromatic;*, ..."

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