Wiktionary
n. (context inorganic compound English) A water-soluble salt of ammonia and hydrochloric acid, having the formula NH4Cl.
WordNet
n. a white salt used in dry cells [syn: sal ammoniac]
Wikipedia
Ammonium chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula NHCl and a white crystalline salt that is highly soluble in water. Solutions of ammonium chloride are mildly acidic. Sal ammoniac is a name of the natural, mineralogical form of ammonium chloride. The mineral is commonly formed on burning coal dumps from condensation of coal-derived gases. It is also found around some types of volcanic vents. It is mainly used as fertilizer and a flavouring agent in some types of liquorice. It is the product from the reaction of hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
Usage examples of "ammonium chloride".
The problem was that we couldn't find much of a use for the ammonium chloride and didn't get all that much ammonia from the coke ovens.
Zoltan's improvement was a way to take quicklime, calcium oxide, and combine it with the ammonium chloride to get all the ammonia back, which we could then recycle.
Who knows but I might have agreed if I had drunk more ammonium chloride.
Further, he knew of a process of combining salt, ammonia, and carbon dioxide to make sodium bicarbonate and ammonium chloride.
But there were many other candidate materials proposed, among them, ammonium chloride, carbon suboxide, various silicates and oxides, solutions of hydrochloric acid, a hydrated ferric chloride, carbohydrates, and hydrocarbons.
All you need is a pot over a fire and a few simple chemicals such as lime and ammonium chloride.
He was revived with the vapors of ammonium chloride from a cut-glass inhaler.