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noun Chemistry.

a water-soluble mixture of ammonium bicarbonate and ammonium carbamate, occurring either as a white powder or in colorless, hard, crystalline masses: used chiefly in the manufacture of smelling salts and baking powder.

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Origin of ammonium carbonate

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby ammonium carbonate

ammonium acetate, ammonium bicarbonate, ammonium bifluoride, ammonium binoxalate, ammonium carbamate, ammonium carbonate, ammonium chloride, ammonium cyanate, ammonium hydroxide, ammonium ion, ammonium lactate

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How to use ammonium carbonate in a sentence

Nontraditional flavors ammonium nitrate, C-4, and gelignite did not test well.
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Ammonium nitrate is extremely common, and pretty dangerous, and also extremely useful.
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Using vinegar to break up the calcium carbonate deposits in your coffee maker?
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When ordinary methods do not suffice, it can usually be cleared by shaking up with a little magnesium carbonate and filtering.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

The sediment usually contains abundant amorphous phosphates and crystals of triple phosphate and ammonium urate.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
It is in this way that lime, which occurs in the soil principally as the insoluble carbonate, is dissolved and absorbed.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson
But the part soluble in acids is distinguished by the great abundance of carbonate of lime.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson
Chalk is a very pure form of carbonate of lime, and where it abounds has been largely employed as an application on the soil.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson

British Dictionary definitions for ammonium carbonate

ammonium carbonate

noun

an unstable pungent soluble white powder that is a double salt of ammonium bicarbonate and ammonium carbamate: used in the manufacture of baking powder, smelling salts, and ammonium compounds. Formula: (NH 4)HCO 3 .(NH 4)CO 2 NH 2

an unstable substance that is produced by treating this compound with ammonia. Formula: (NH 4) 2 CO 3

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Medical definitions for ammonium carbonate

ammonium carbonate

A carbonate of ammonium.

The double salt of ammonium bicarbonate and ammonium carbamate, produced commercially and used in powder form in smelling salts.

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