ammonia

IPA: ʌmˈoʊnjʌ

(inorganic chemistry) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH₃, with a pungent smell and taste.
A solution of this compound in water used domestically as a cleaning fluid.

Examples of "ammonia" in Sentences

The room has a common wall with the stables and ammonia is filtering through.
I'm sitting in the dugout and notice a water cooler with the word "ammonia" written on it.
The ammonia is then cooled using cold water from the ocean depths, returning it into a liquid state so the process can start all over again.
A special type of rock salt found at Siwa valued for its chemical properties was known far and wide as the salt of Ammon—thus our term ammonia.
“Where mixed alkalies and superphosphate,” said the Doctor, “are added to the ammonia, the increase _from the ammonia_ is far greater than where ammonia is used alone.
In the 1950s, Urey theorized that the early atmosphere of the Earth was probably like the atmosphere now present on Jupiter – i.e., rich in ammonia, methane, and hydrogen.
Wheat that gets enough ammonia is 14% protein, if it is unfertilized closer to 8%, and that 43% reduction in total plant protein is going to cause unimaginable suffering in places like Egypt, where half of the population gets subsidized bread.
Thus, for instance, all those salts which are formed by the combination of the sulphuric acid with any of the salifiable bases are called _sulphats_, and the name of the radical is added for the specific distinction of the salt; if it be potash, it will compose a _sulphat of potash_; if ammonia, _sulphat of ammonia_, &c.