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Ammonia

AMMO'NIA

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ammonia

ammonia

English

Noun

ammonia ‎(uncountable)

(inorganic chemistry) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH₃, with a pungent smell and taste.

Synonyms

spirits of hartshorn (obsolete)
volatile alkali (obsolete)

Derived terms

Terms derived from ammonia

Translations

the compound NH₃

Bulgarian: амоняк (bg) ‎(amonjak)
Chinese:

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

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

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

Min Nan: 氨 ‎(an), a-mó͘-ní-á
Czech: čpavek (cs) m, amoniak m
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)
Irish: amóinia f

Italian: ammoniaca (it) f
Japanese: アンモニア (ja) ‎(anmonia)
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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Amaimon