νίτρον

nitron

sodium carbonate

Appears 14 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Meteorology 11
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Book IV 11
Chapter 6 382b28–383b17

383b12

Chapter 7 383b18–384b23

383b19
384a18
384a34

Chapter 8 384b24–385b5

385a31

Chapter 9 385b6–388a9

385b9
385b16
385b23
385b23

Chapter 10 388a10–389a23

388b13
389a18
Sense and Sensibilia 2
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Chapter 5 442b27–445b2

443a13
443a14
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 20 477a32–478a10

477b22

Dictionary (LSJ)

νίτρον, τό, in Hdt. and Att. λίτρον (q.v.), A. sodium carbonate, Sapph. 165, Hp. Aër. 7, Arist. Mete. 383b12, IG 9(1).691 (Corc., iii B.C.), PCair.Zen. 304.7 (iii B.C.), PTeb. 182 (ii B.C.), Gal. 13.265; ν. ἐρυθρόν Hp. Nat.Mul. 32, cf. Mul. 1.98; ν. θαλάσσιον, i.e. from the Egyptian lakes, Hippiatr. 130; as an ἄρτυμα, Antiph. 142.2; mixed with oil as a soap, Alciphr. 3.61, Lib. Decl. 26.19. (Cf. Egypt. ntirj ‘natron’.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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