Definitions for natron

natron na·tron

Spelling: [ney-tron, -truh n]
IPA: /ˈneɪ trɒn, -trən/

Natron is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in natron (annort).

Definitions for natron

noun

  1. a mineral, hydrated sodium carbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.

Origin of natron

1675-85; French Spanish Arabic naṭrūn, variant of niṭrūn Greek nítron niter; compare also Egyptian ntry, Hebrew nether

Examples for natron

The natron also dissolves the flesh, so that nothing remains but the skin and bones.

The clay, of a deep blue colour, abounds with marine shells, and shows a strong efflorescence of natron and sea-salt.

For weeks it was soaked in a solution of natron and then it was filled with pitch.

Not very good water, I'm afraid, but you soon get accustomed to natron.

Four of the oldest monasteries in the world still survive in the natron Valley.

Once, while staying with Kondratiev at Nizy, the local doctor had recommended him natron water.

Mourad had selected the natron Lakes for his place of rendezvous.

Gradually the yellow skin preserved by the natron began to appear through the cross-hatchings of the bandages.

The corpse was filled with spices, drenched in a bath of natron, wound with bandages and thus transformed into a mummy.

Lime, the wife of natron, produces marble, dissolved and saturated with acid is crystallized into gypsum.

Word Value for natron
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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