ammonia

English

Etymology

FromLatinsal ammoniacus(“salt of Amun,ammonium chloride”),named so because it was found near the temple of (Jupiter)Ammonin Egypt.Ammonderives fromAncient GreekἌμμων(Ámmōn),fromEgyptianjmn(

).

Pronunciation

• (US)enPR:əmōn'yə,IPA^(key):/əˈmoʊn.jə/

• Audio(Southern England):

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Noun

ammonia(countableanduncountable,pluralammonias)

2. (inorganic chemistry)A gaseous compound ofhydrogenandnitrogen,NH₃,with a pungent smell and taste.
3. Asolutionof this compound inwaterused domestically as a cleaning fluid.

   Never useammoniato clean metal writing pens.

   • 1887,Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia,page95:

     Slowly we rode down to the camp - a very sorrowful party. We took "Nep" straight to the surgery, where the doctor instantly applied injections ofammonia,then the new remedy for snake bite.

   • 1985December 14, Kim Westheimer, “Rape-Surviving Lesbian Faces Repeated Attacks”, inGay Community News,volume13,number22,page 1:

     When the woman pressed charges against the man who beat her up and threatened her, the man's girlfriend approached her after work and threw a bottle ofammoniaat her.

Synonyms

• spirits of hartshorn(obsolete)
• volatile alkali(obsolete)

Derived terms

• 880 ammonia
• amatol
• ammonaemia
• ammonemia
• ammonia borane
• ammoniac
• ammonia caramel
• ammonialike
• ammonian
• ammoniaphone
• ammonia process
• ammoniate
• ammoniation
• ammonia water
• ammonic
• ammonical
• ammonification
• ammonify
• ammonium
• ammonuria
• ammoxidation
• aqua ammonia
• baker's ammonia
• blue ammonia
• brown ammonia
• caustic ammonia
• gray ammonia
• green ammonia
• grey ammonia
• liquid ammonia
• oxammite
• oxyammonia

Related terms

• amide
• amine
• amino-

Translations

the compound NH₃

• Arabic:أَمُونِيَا(ar)f(ʔamūniyā),نُشَادِرm(nušādir)
• Bulgarian:амоняк(bg)(amonjak)
• Catalan:amoníacm
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Amonia(on¹),NH₃／NH₃(on¹hei³),̣̣̣khí a-mô-ni-ắc／̣̣̣khí a-mô-ni-ắc(aa³mo¹nei⁴aa³)(common name)

  Hakka:Amonia(ôn),̣̣̣khí a-mô-ni-ắc／̣̣̣khí a-mô-ni-ắc(à-mo-ni-yá)(common name)

  Hokkien:Amonia(an),a-mó͘-ní-á

  Mandarin:Amonia(zh)(ān),NH₃／NH₃(zh)(ānqì),̣̣̣khí a-mô-ni-ắc／̣̣̣khí a-mô-ni-ắc(zh)(āmóníyà)(common name),An ma ni á／An ma ni á(zh)(ānmóníyà)(common name)

• Czech:čpavek(cs)m,amoniak(cs)m
• Danish:ammoniak(da)c
• Dutch:ammoniak(nl)m
• Esperanto:amoniako
• Estonian:ammoniaak(et)
• Faroese:ammoniakkn
• Finnish:ammoniakki(fi)
• French:ammoniaque(fr)f,ammoniac(fr)m
• German:Ammoniak(de)n
• Greek:αμμωνία(el)f(ammonía)
• Hungarian:ammónia(hu)
• Indonesian:amonia(id)
• Irish:amóiniaf
• Italian:ammoniaca(it)f
• Japanese:アンモニア(ja)(anmonia)
• Korean:암모니아(ko)(ammonia)
• Latvian:amonjaksm
• Malay:amonia
• Malayalam:അമോണിയ(ml)(amōṇiya)
• Maori:haukini
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:ammoniakk(no)m

  Nynorsk:ammoniakkm

• Persian:آمونیاک(phát)(âmuniyâk)
• Polish:amoniak(pl)m
• Portuguese:amoníaco(pt)m

  Brazilian:amônia(pt)f

  European:amóniaf

• Romanian:amoniac(ro)n
• Russian:аммиа́к(ru)m(ammiák)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:амо̀нијакm

  Roman:amònijak(sh)m

• Slovak:čpavokm,amoniakm
• Spanish:amoníaco(es)m
• Swedish:ammoniak(sv)c
• Tagalog:amonya(tl)
• Turkish:amonyak(tr)
• Ukrainian:аміа́к(uk)m(amiák),амоніа́к(uk)m(amoniák)

References

• ammoniaon Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “ammonia”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• “ammonia”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Amaimon

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ɑˈmoː.ni.aː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation:am‧mo‧ni‧a

Noun

ammoniaf(uncountable)

1. ammoniasolution

Related terms

• ammoniak

Descendants

• →Indonesian:amonia