| 单词 | muriate of ammonia |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmuriate of ammonia a. in sal ammoniac (Latin sal ammoniacus, French sel ammoniac) i.e. Salt of Ammon, a hard white opaque crystalline salt, supposed to have been originally prepared from the dung of camels near the temple of Jupiter Ammon, as it still is in Egypt; chemically Ammonium Chloride NH4Cl, formerly called muriate of ammonia; used in tinning iron, in pharmacy, and for the manufacture of Ammonium Alum for the dyer. ΚΠ c1386 Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 245 Arsenik, sal armoniak [v.r. armonyak], and brimston. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 605 Hony, myxt with salt armonyake. a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence 9 If ȝe wole dissolue þe gold to watir, putte þanne yn þe watir corosyue, Sal armoniac. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World (1634) II. 415 This Ammoniacke salt is corrupted and sophisticate..with the pit salt of Sicily called Cocanicus. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. v. 20 Sal armoniac is of nature spirituall. 1753 E. Chambers Cycl. Suppl. Suppl. s.v. Ammoniacum, The liquor will be scentless, and of the taste of sal armoniac. 1873 A. W. Williamson Chem. for Students viii. §53 The hydrochlorate can be obtained in crystals..mixed with sal-ammoniac. < as lemmas |
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