spirit of hartshorn

or spirits of hartshorn

noun Chemistry.

a colorless, pungent, suffocating, aqueous solution of about 28.5 percent ammonia gas: used chiefly as a detergent, for removing stains and extracting certain vegetable coloring agents, and in the manufacture of ammonium salts.

Nearby words

spirit lake, spirit lamp, spirit level, spirit leveling, spirit of enterprise, spirit of hartshorn, spirit of nitrous ether, spirit rapping, spirit varnish, spirit wrestler, spirit writing

Origin of spirit of hartshorn

First recorded in 1675–85