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ammoniac
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ammoniac \Am*mo"ni*ac\(or Gum ammoniac \Gum` am*mo"ni*ac\, n. [L. Ammoniacum, Gr. ? a resinous gum, said to distill from a tree near the temple of Jupiter Ammon; cf. F. ammoniac. See Ammonite.] (Med.) The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.
Ammoniac \Am*mo"ni*ac\, Ammoniacal \Am`mo*ni"a*cal\, a. Of, pertaining, or containing ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.
Ammoniacal engine, an engine in which the vapor of ammonia is used as the motive force.
Sal ammoniac [L. sal ammoniacus], the salt usually called chloride of ammonium, and formerly muriate of ammonia.
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to ammonia, or possessing its properties.
WordNet
n. the aromatic gum of the ammoniac plant [syn: gum ammoniac]
adj. pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia [syn: ammoniacal]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "ammoniac".
They picked up the eyes of the cattle in little bright points of light, fat contented beasts, the smell of their dung sharp and ammoniac al on the cool night air.
She smelled the ammoniac odor of the big beast, even as she plunged, face down, into a tumble of leaf-drift.
She shewed me some precipitated by sal ammoniac, which would not precipitate gold.
His nostrils filled with the ammoniac stench of the pigs, his ears bombarded with their squealing.
She smelled an ammoniac odor, and saw a huge midnight-blue form wide and tall enough to block the corridor.
August, 1907, the joints between the segments of the cast-iron lining were caulked with iron filings and sal ammoniac, mixed in the proportion of 400 to 1 by weight.
Our chief reagents are green vitriol, sulfur, orpiment, and a large group of active salts, primary among them sal hepatica and sal ammoniac, though there are many others.
I made potassium cyanide by adding sal ammoniac to a mixture of plumbago and potash.
Under the combined action of bacteria and the digestive juices disgorged by the larvae, the corpse begins to liquefy and becomes a ferment of butyric and ammoniac reactions.
Affytechans, especially when they moved quickly, gave off an amazing galaxy of stenches, acrid, ammoniac, or gluily musky.
At first your fire must be slow so as to extract the gross phlegm of the matter, and when the spirit begins to appear, place the receiver under the retort, and Luna with the ammoniac salts will appear in it.
I used eggshells, sulfur, vitriol, arsenic, sal ammoniac, quartz, alkalis, oxides of rock, saltpeter, soda, salt of tartar, and potash alum.
His was a ranching family he had been raised with the ammoniac al smell of cow dung in his nostrils, and had learned to judge beef on the hoof when he was small enough to perch up on Bawu's saddle, pommel likea sparrow on a fence pole.
They've sent us four cases of gum ammoniac, three of Glauber's salts, and two hundred assorted stump-caps!
Monsieur Bertholet, by dissolving silver in the nitrous acid, precipitating it with lime water, and drying the precipitate on ammoniac, has discovered a powder which fulminates most powerfully, on coming into contact with any substance whatever.