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ammonia

noun as in pungent gas, liquid

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Example Sentences

Is she back in the orphanage where it smells like ammonia and cooked cabbage?

The plant was checked out only when the state agency received a complaint about a strong ammonia smell.

He instinctively knew it was coming from the 50-year-old fertilizer plant and ammonia storage facility a few blocks away.

It runs on combustible poison—ammonia and pressurized hydrogen.

But the ammonia leak in November, and now the radiation leak and deteriorating tubes, might lead some to conclude otherwise.

They are dissolved by strong hydrochloric acid, and recrystallize as octahedra upon addition of ammonia.

On the other side the ammonia brought out a picture of the Victory, with the head of a roaring lion below it.

His results for ammonia, as well as nitric acid, are given in the subjoined table.

Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, but it cannot be formed by the direct union of these gases.

It appears also, as far as absorption goes, to be immaterial whether the ammonia is free or combined.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ammonia, such as: alkali, salts, spirits, and vapor.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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