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ammonia /əˈməʊnɪə /noun [mass noun]1A colourless gas with a characteristic pungent smell, which dissolves in water to give a strongly alkaline solution.He isolated around twenty different airs, including hydrogen chloride, nitric oxide, and ammonia....- In the Solvay process, carbon dioxide and ammonia are passed into a concentrated solution of sodium chloride.
- When ammonia is reacted with nitric acid, ammonium nitrate is produced.
1.1A solution of ammonia, used as a cleaning fluid.And I'll remember to stock up on ammonia to clean the eggs off my door the next day when I do...- Make a mixture of detergent and ammonia for cleaning the walls.
- The fluid smelt of ammonia and the victim was taken to hospital with stinging eyes after his attacker fled.
OriginLate 18th century: modern Latin, from sal ammoniacus (see sal ammoniac). RhymesAmazonia, Antonia, Babylonia, begonia, bonier, Catalonia, catatonia, Cephalonia, Estonia, Ionia, Laconia, Livonia, Macedonia, mahonia, Patagonia, pneumonia, pogonia, Rondônia, sinfonia, Snowdonia, valonia, zirconia |