Definitions for ammonia

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ammonia am·mo·nia

Spelling: [uh-mohn-yuh, uh-moh

IPA: /əˈmoʊn yə, əˈmoʊ ni ə/

Ammonia is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in ammonia (aaimmno).

Definitions for ammonia

noun

1. a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water-soluble, gaseous compound, NH 3 , 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.
2. Also called ammonia solution, ammonia water, aqua ammoniae, aqua ammonia, aqueous ammonia. this gas dissolved in water; ammonium hydroxide.

Origin of ammonia

1790-1800; New Latin, so called as being obtained from sal ammoniac. See ammoniac

Examples for ammonia

Even where he stood, Gordon could smell the fumes of ammonia.

But the ammonia leak in November, and now the radiation leak and deteriorating tubes, might lead some to conclude otherwise.

If you get any on your skin or clothes, wash it off immediately with ammonia or soda.

Aromatic spirits of ammonia should also be given as a stimulant.

It also gives off ammonia, when treated with caustic potash.

Therefore add the latter part of the ammonia very carefully.

If I ain't got my death of—of ammonia or somethin', I miss my guess.

Kayerts was always ready to let him have a sniff at the ammonia bottle.

Is she back in the orphanage where it smells like ammonia and cooked cabbage?

He instinctively knew it was coming from the 50-year-old fertilizer plant and ammonia storage facility a few blocks away.