ammonium

See also: ammónium, ammonium-, and Ammonium

English

Etymology

ammonia +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: əmō'nēəm, IPA^(key): /əˈmoʊni.əm/

Noun

ammonium (usually uncountable, plural ammoniums)

1. (inorganic chemistry) The univalent NH₄⁺ cation, derived by the protonation of ammonia
2. (organic chemistry, especially in combination) Any similar cation formed by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms with alkyl or aryl radicals

Derived terms

• ammonium acetate
• ammonium bicarbonate
• ammonium carbamate
• ammonium carbonate
• ammonium chloride
• ammonium hydroxide
• ammonium imine
• ammonium laureth sulfate
• ammonium nitrate
• ammonium phosphate
• ammonium phosphatide
• ammonium polyvanadate
• ammonium sulfate
• ammonium sulphate
• ammonium ylide
• ceric ammonium nitrate
• ferric ammonium citrate
• quaternary ammonium
• quaternary ammonium compound

 

Translations

univalent NH₄⁺ cation

• Catalan: amoni m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 銨, 铵 (on¹)

  Mandarin: 銨 (zh), 铵 (zh) (ǎn)

• Czech: amonium n
• Finnish: ammoniumioni
• French: ammonium (fr) m
• German: Ammonium (de) n
• Greek: αμμώνιο n (ammónio)
• Hebrew: אמוניום‎ m (amónium)
• Hindi: तिक्तातु (tiktātu)
• Hungarian: ammónium (hu)
• Ido: amonio (io)

• Irish: amóiniam m
• Italian: ammonio (it) m
• Japanese: アンモニウム (anmoniumu)
• Korean: 암모늄 (ammonyum)
• Polish: amon (pl) m
• Portuguese: amónio m (Portugal), amônio m (Brazil)
• Romanian: amoniu (ro)
• Russian: аммо́ний (ru) m (ammónij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀мо̄ниј m

  Roman: àmōnij (sh) m

• Spanish: amonio m
• Vietnamese: amoni

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism, ultimately from Latin ammonium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmːonium/, [ˈɑmːo̞ˌnium]
• Rhymes: -ium
• Syllabification^(key): am‧mo‧ni‧um

Noun

ammonium

1. (chemistry) ammonium; used as mass noun, see also ammoniumioni (“ammonium”)

   Korkea ammoniumin pitoisuus häiritsee aivojen aineenvaihduntaa.

   A high concentration of ammonium disturbs the metabolism of the brain.

Declension

Inflection of ammonium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		ammonium	—
genitive		ammoniumin	—
partitive		ammoniumia	—
illative		ammoniumiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		ammonium	—
accusative	nom.	ammonium	—
	gen.	ammoniumin
genitive		ammoniumin	—
partitive		ammoniumia	—
inessive		ammoniumissa	—
elative		ammoniumista	—
illative		ammoniumiin	—
adessive		ammoniumilla	—
ablative		ammoniumilta	—
allative		ammoniumille	—
essive		ammoniumina	—
translative		ammoniumiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		ammoniumitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of ammonium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	ammoniumini	ammoniumimme
2nd person	ammoniumisi	ammoniuminne
3rd person	ammoniuminsa

Compounds

• ammoniumalginaatti
• ammoniumfluoridi
• ammoniumfosfatidi
• ammoniumhydroksidi
• ammoniumioni
• ammoniumkarbonaatti
• ammoniumkloridi
• ammoniumnitraatti
• ammoniumperkloraatti
• ammoniumsulfaatti
• ammoniumsulfidi
• ammoniumtyppi

 

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mɔ.njɔm/

Noun

ammonium m (plural ammoniums)

1. (inorganic chemistry) ammonium

Further reading

• “ammonium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.