Native carbonate of sodium.
A saline compound, very abundant in Egypt, which is almost wholly formed of subcarbonate of soda.
Native sodium carbonate; also, soda or sodium oxid.
Native soda, found on the surface of the ground or dissolved in lake water.
See soda. For subheading not here given see under sodium.
n. [Arabic] Native carbonate of soda, called in the Scriptures nitre.