Ammonia
11AMMONIA — I. AMMONIA Iuno sic dicta, i. e. arenaria, culta in Graecia ab Eleis. Pausan. Quô nomine Luna non inepte intelligitur; ut enim Iuppiter Ammon Sol erat, sic Luna Iuno Ammonia dicta videtur, quam in forma ovis cultam fuisse legimus. Vide Cael.… …
12ammonia — [18] Ammonia gets its name ultimately from Amon, or Amen, the Egyptian god of life and reproduction. Near the temple of Amon in Libya were found deposits of ammonium chloride, which was hence named sal ammoniac – ‘salt of Amon’. The gas nitrogen… …
13ammonia — [ə məʊnɪə] noun a colourless, intensely pungent gas which dissolves in water to give a strongly alkaline solution. [NH3.] ↘a solution of ammonia, used as a cleaning fluid. Derivatives ammoniacal adjective Word History The word ammonia was applied …
14ammonia — am•mo•nia [[t]əˈmoʊn yə, əˈmoʊ ni ə[/t]] n. 1) chem. a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water soluble, gaseous compound, NH3, used chiefly for refrigeration and in the manufacture of commercial chemicals and laboratory reagents 2) chem.… …
15ammonia — /əˈmoʊnjə/ (say uh mohnyuh), / iə/ (say eeuh) noun 1. a colourless, pungent, suffocating gas, NH3, a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, very soluble in water. 2. Also, ammonia water, aqua ammoniae, aqueous ammonia. this gas dissolved in water,… …
16ammonia — [18] Ammonia gets its name ultimately from Amon, or Amen, the Egyptian god of life and reproduction. Near the temple of Amon in Libya were found deposits of ammonium chloride, which was hence named sal ammoniac – ‘salt of Amon’. The gas nitrogen… …
17ammonia — n. 1 a colourless strongly alkaline gas with a characteristic pungent smell. Usage: Chem. formula: NH3 2 (in full ammonia water) (in general use) a solution of ammonia gas in water. Etymology: mod.L f. SAL AMMONIAC …
18ammonia — noun Etymology: New Latin, from Latin sal ammoniacus sal ammoniac, literally, salt of Ammon, from Greek ammōniakos of Ammon, from Ammōn Ammon, Amun, an Egyptian god near whose temple at the Siwa oasis it was extracted Date: 1789 1. a pungent… …
19ammonia — A colorless volatile gas, NH3, very soluble in water, capable of forming the weak base, NH4+OH−, which combines with acids to form ammonium compounds. [fr. L. sal ammoniacus, salt of Amen (G. Ammon), obtained near a temple of Amen in Libya] * * * …
20ammonia N 13 — [USP] ammonia in which a portion of the molecules are labeled with 13N; administered intravenously for use in positron emission tomography of the cardiovascular system, brain, and liver …
