a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water-soluble, gaseous compound, NH3, usually produced by the direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen gases: used chiefly for refrigeration and in the manufacture of commercial chemicals and laboratory reagents.
Also called aqueous ammonia,ammonia solution,ammonia water . this gas dissolved in water; ammonium hydroxide.
Origin of ammonia
First recorded in 1790–1800; from New Latin, so called as being obtained from sal ammoniac; see ammoniac
Another option is to convert renewable electricity into some other form of relatively clean energy, such as hydrogen, ethanol, or ammonia.
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The ISS has previously dealt with ammonia leaks coming from the station’s cooling loops.
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Since ammonia is toxic to humans, such leaks require immediate action, involving lengthy spacewalks to identify holes in the coolant system and repair them.
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Jain’s discovery could allow workers to transport ammonia instead, which is safer, and then free the hydrogen from the ammonia once it has arrived where’s it needed.
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It turns out there was an ammonia feed going into the tap water, and when they turned it off, the phone stopped ringing.
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Is she back in the orphanage where it smells like ammonia and cooked cabbage?
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He instinctively knew it was coming from the 50-year-old fertilizer plant and ammonia storage facility a few blocks away.
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But the ammonia leak in November, and now the radiation leak and deteriorating tubes, might lead some to conclude otherwise.
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Even where he stood, Gordon could smell the fumes of ammonia.
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The second process for estimating cellulose is based upon the use of bromine and ammonia.
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Ammonia is also active, but not quite in the same manner as the alkali hydroxides.
Ammonia and the nitrates are, therefore, the basis of all fertilisers.
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British Dictionary definitions for ammonia
ammonia
/ (əˈməʊnɪə, -njə) /
noun
a colourless pungent highly soluble gas mainly used in the manufacture of fertilizers, nitric acid, and other nitrogenous compounds, and as a refrigerant and solvent. Formula: NH 3
a solution of ammonia in water, containing the compound ammonium hydroxide
Word Origin for ammonia
C18: from New Latin, from Latin (sal) ammōniacus (sal) ammoniac1
A colorless alkaline gas that is lighter than air and has a strongly pungent odor. It is used as a fertilizer and refrigerant, in medicine, and in making dyes, textiles, plastics, and explosives. Chemical formula:NH3.