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

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)
• 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

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 (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).