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countable and uncountable, plural ammonias
(inorganic chemistry) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste. examples
A solution of this compound in water used domestically as a cleaning fluid. quotations examples
Slowly we rode down to the camp - a very sorrowful party. We took "Nep" straight to the surgery, where the doctor instantly applied injections of ammonia, then the new remedy for snake bite.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 95