ammonium carbonate
- 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
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ammonium carbonate
- 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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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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