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ammoniate

ammoniate \ammoniate\ v. 1. treat with ammonia; expose to ammonia

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ammoniate

n. (context inorganic chemistry English) Any compound containing ammonia bound as a ligand vb. To treat with ammonia

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ammoniate

v. treat with ammonia

Usage examples of "ammoniate".

Some kind of dire temperature inversion had clamped itself down over the city like a bell jar, trapping and concentrating the cocktail of dust, automobile exhaust, coal smoke, woodsmoke, manure smoke, and the ammoniated gasses that rose up from the stewn excreta of millions of people and animals.

Red cree lacked the medicinal quality of the blue in which, partly because of its chemical reaction to the ammoniated air and partly due to the latent eggs it harbored, lay the curative power so much in demand on Earth.

She carefully leaned over the edge and lowered the wires into the ammoniated muck in the bottom, pressing the wires and spray can deep into it.

Over a million and a half peoplethree hundred thousand of them Chinesehave been wiped out by thosethose ammoniated flatworms!

I propped a ladder against the highest of three stories of glass and began to climb up with a bucket containing a squeegee and squirt bottle of ammoniated solution.

Some kind of dire temperature inversion had clamped itself down over the city like a bell jar, trapping and concentrating the cocktail of dust, automobile exhaust, coal smoke, woodsmoke, manure smoke, and the ammoniated gasses that rose up from the stewn excreta of millions of people and animals.

There was a powerful reek of ammoniates and incense, with gusts of sour wine and sour flesh.

As litmus paper, colored by the Earth lichen, rocella tinctoria shows the presence of acid or alkali by its color change, so Ganymedian cree reacted to the ammoniated atmosphere of the planet.