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n. 1 (context inorganic chemistry English) Pure ammonia cooled or condensed to the liquid state. 2 (context informal inorganic chemistry English) An aqueous solution of ammonia.
Usage examples of "liquid ammonia".
He hoped that the lower levels of the core would contain materials soaked in liquid ammonia.
Preferring an inside climb to an outside one, he took the ramps back to the bridge and made use of the small lock which gave onto the top of the hull-a U-shaped pip of liquid ammonia just about large enough for a Mesklinite body.
Flowing through the thin stream of liquid ammonia lining the corridor, he felt ambiguously stimulated.
Aryz skidded through the thin layer of liquid ammonia on his broadest pod, considering his new assignment.
And you can't carry liquid ammonia around in buckets, even in this part of the Solar System.
They've got a colloidal continuum-discontinuum exactly like protoplasm-except that it uses liquid ammonia as a sol substrate, instead of water.
Theyve got a colloidal continuum-discontinuum exactly like protoplasmexcept that it uses liquid ammonia as a sol substrate, instead of water.
With a diameter of almost two miles, it lay on a storm-whipped ocean of liquid ammonia.
Might there be volcanoes of solid ammonia with lavas of liquid ammonia trickling down their sides?
And even when that was done, everything had to be coated with tough quartz to keep away the rain-the liquid ammonia that fell as bitter rain.
Theirs was a world in which ice was like rock to form mountains, where rivers and seas of liquid ammonia raged through storms which could swallow Earth whole, where life based its chemistry on hydrogen and ammonia instead of oxygen and water, where explosions of gas burned red through darkness, where the population of the dominant species was estimated at fifty billions and a million years of recorded history had united them in one inhuman civilization - it was not a world for men, and he wished sometimes that men had never sent robots down to contact the Thrymans, never traded instruction in the modern science .
On extremely cold worlds, where water is frozen solid, some other solvent--liquid ammonia, for instance--might be a key to a different form of biochemistry.