Definitions for ammoniacs

ammoniacs am·mo·ni·ac

Spelling: [uh-moh-nee-ak]
IPA: /əˈmoʊ niˌæk/

Ammoniacs is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 356 anagrams from letters in ammoniacs (aacimmnos).

Definitions for ammoniacs

noun

  1. Also, ammoniacum [am-uh-nahy-uh-kuh m] /ˌæm əˈnaɪ ə kəm/ (Show IPA). gum ammoniac.

adjective

  1. ammoniacal.

Origin of ammoniacs

1375-1425; late Middle English armoniac, ammoniak Latin ammōniacum Greek ammōniakón (neuter of ammōniakós of Ammon; see -i-,

Examples for ammoniacs

Sal ammoniac, two ounces; rum, one pint; camphor, two drachms.

Sal ammoniac or ammonium nitrate when dissolved in water produce a much more marked cooling effect than does table salt.

In like manner later physicians, when they wish to prescribe common salt, recommend in particular the ammoniac.

When combined with oxygen, azote forms the nitrous and nitric oxyds and acids; when with hydrogen, ammoniac is produced.

Sal ammoniac exists ready formed in several animal products.

ammoniac has likewise a peculiar odour, not less penetrating, or less disagreeable, than these other gasses.

The whole living room stank of whiskey fumes with an ammoniac tinge.

ammoniac and Mercury Plaster (Emplastrum ammoniaci cum hydrargyro).

I do not know,' he once wrote, 'what is precisely meant by "ammoniac manure."

Sal ammoniac is used as the exciting fluid, carbon and zinc being used for plates.

Word Value for ammoniacs
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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