ammonia

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sal ammoniacus (“salt of Amun, ammonium chloride”), named so because it was found near the temple of (Jupiter) Ammon in Egypt. Ammon derives from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Ἄμμων (Ámmōn), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Egyptian

jmn.

Pronunciation

• enPR: əmōn'yə, IPA^(key): /əˈmoʊn.jə/

Noun

ammonia (countable and uncountable, plural ammonias)

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

Synonyms

• spirits of hartshorn (obsolete)
• volatile alkali (obsolete)

Derived terms

• 880 ammonia
• ammonia borane
• ammonian
• ammonia process
• ammonic
• ammonical
• ammonium
• liquid ammonia

 

Related terms

• amide
• amine
• amino-

Translations

the compound NH₃

• Bulgarian: амоняк (bg) (amonjak)
• Catalan: amoníac m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氨 (on¹), 氨氣／氨气 (on¹ hei³), 氨气 (on¹ hei³), 阿摩尼亞／阿摩尼亚 (aa³ mo¹ nei⁴ aa³), 阿摩尼亚 (aa³ mo¹ nei⁴ aa³) (common name)

  Hakka: 氨 (ôn), 阿摩尼亞／阿摩尼亚, 阿摩尼亚 (à-mo-ni-yá) (common name)

  Mandarin: 氨 (zh) (ān), 氨氣／氨气 (zh) (ānqì), 氨气 (zh) (ānqì), 阿摩尼亞／阿摩尼亚 (zh) (āmóníyà), 阿摩尼亚 (zh) (āmóníyà) (common name), 安摩尼亞／安摩尼亚 (zh), 安摩尼亚 (zh) (ānmóníyà) (common name)

  Min Nan: 氨 (an), a-mó͘-ní-á

• Czech: čpavek (cs) m, amoniak (cs) m
• Danish: ammoniak (da) c
• Dutch: ammoniak (nl) m
• Esperanto: amoniako
• Estonian: ammoniaak
• Faroese: ammoniakk n
• Finnish: ammoniakki (fi)
• French: ammoniaque (fr) f, ammoniac (fr) m
• German: Ammoniak (de) n
• Greek: αμμωνία (el) f (ammonía)
• Hungarian: ammónia (hu)
• Interlingue:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: amóinia f
• Italian: ammoniaca (it) f
• Japanese: アンモニア (ja) (anmonia)
• Latvian: amonjaks m
• Maori: haukini
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ammoniakk (no) m

  Nynorsk: ammoniakk m

• Persian: آمونیاک (fa) (âmuniyâk)
• Polish: amoniak (pl) m
• Portuguese: amoníaco (pt) m, amônia (pt) f
• Romanian: amoniac (ro) n
• Russian: аммиа́к (ru) m (ammiák)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: амо̀нијак m

  Roman: amònijak (sh) m

• Slovak: čpavok m, amoniak m
• Spanish: amoníaco m
• Swedish: ammoniak (sv) c
• Turkish: amonyak (tr)

References

• ammonia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “ammonia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ammonia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Amaimon

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Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈmoː.ni.aː/

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• Hyphenation: am‧mo‧ni‧a

Noun

ammonia f (uncountable)

1. ammonia solution

Related terms

• ammoniak