calcium nitrate

noun

1. a white, deliquescent solid, Ca(NO 3 ) 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, fireworks, matches, and explosives.

Example Sentences

He dumps nine gallons of water, and then measures out just a few tablespoons of calcium nitrate, magnesium sulfate and a blended fertilizer containing nitrogen, potash and phosphate.

From Washington Times

It absorbs the fumes generated from traffic and converts them first into nitric acid and then into calcium nitrate, which is harmless.

From BBC

For example, Professor MacDougal, by treating the germ-cells of the evening primrose with various solutions, such as sugar, zinc sulphate and calcium nitrate, has apparently succeeded in producing definite germinal mutations.

From Project Gutenberg

“To see him use molecular gastronomy, to take a strawberry compote and put it into calcium nitrate so that it totally changed the consistency — it opened my mind to an entire world of pastry.”

From New York Times

The result is, sir," answered Herzog, meek and cowed under this harrying, "that calcium nitrate is produced, a very excellent fertilizer.

From Project Gutenberg