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ammonium sulphate

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noun

  1. a white soluble crystalline solid used mainly as a fertilizer and in water purification. Formula: (NH 4 ) 2 SO 4

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He told Xinhua that the damaged factory has been producing ammonium sulphate, guanidine nitrate and nitro guanidine.

From BBC Feb. 28, 2012

The new process, by conducting the distillation of the coal at low temperature, sacrifices about half of the maximum obtainable illuminating gas, as well as ammonium sulphate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those in most common use are iron wire, ferrous ammonium sulphate, sodium oxalate, oxalic acid, and some other derivatives of oxalic acid.

From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Talbot, Henry P.

He adds ammonium sulphate or ammonium nitrate to the mixed acids during the operation of nitrating, which he claims destroys the nitrous acid formed according to the equation—

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)

If plasma be weakly acidified with sulphuric acid, then treated with crystals of ammonium sulphate until a slight precipitate forms, filtered and the filtrate allowed to evaporate very slowly, typical crystals of serum-albumin may form.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

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