AMMONIA
\amˈə͡ʊni͡ə], \amˈəʊniə], \a_m_ˈəʊ_n_iə]\
Definitions of AMMONIA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: - often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.
By Oddity Software
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A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: - often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.
By Noah Webster.
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Ammonia. A colorless alkaline gas. It is formed in the body during decomposition of organic materials during a large number of metabolically important reactions.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A clear, sharp or pungentgas, readily soluble in water: used in medicine, in manufacturing ice, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A pungent gas; also, a solution of this gas in water, called spirits of hartshorn, aqua ammonia, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
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An alcali, so called, because obtained principally by decomposing sal ammoniac (muriate of ammonia) by lime. This gas is colourless, transparent, elastic, of a pungent, characteristic odour, and an acrid, urinous taste. It turns the syrup of violets green, and its specific gravity is 0.596. When inhaled, largely diluted with common air, it is a powerful irritant. When unmixed, it instantly induces suffocation.
By Robley Dunglison
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A colorless alkaline gas, NH3.
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Also water charged with the same, called also ammonia water; stimulant.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A colorless gas, NH3, with a pungent suffocating odor, and a strong alkaline taste and reaction. Specific gravity 0.589. Soluble in water and alcohol. In its compounds it is widely diffused in nature. In composition it acts as a monacid base and forms crystalline salts, known as ammoniacal salts. For these salts see ammonium. List of poisons and their antidotes, see in appendix, page 938.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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