ammoniacal
Americanadjective
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consisting of, containing, or using ammonia.
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like ammonia.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ammoniacal
Example Sentences
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Both nitrous and ammoniacal pollutants are continuously and rapidly accumulating in China's environment and contribute to aerosol formation.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 27, 2013
The air of the cave is foul with the unpleasant ammoniacal odor of bats, whose excreta comes showering down.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Offered by Dr. James M. Prime of Omaha, this procedure is to paint the teeth with ammoniacal silver nitrate which gives "instant warning" by darkening rotting enamel.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Included among the gases, ammoniacal liquor, and tar, the compounds which are known to be formed by the destructive distillation of coal already reach to nearly one hundred and fifty in number.
From Coal and What We Get from It by Meldola, Raphael
Ores in which the copper is present as oxide or carbonate are soluble in sulphuric or hydrochloric acids, ferrous chloride, ferric sulphate, ammoniacal compounds and sodium thiosulphate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
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