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Webster 1913 Edition
ammoniacal
{
am-mo′ni-ac
(ăm-mō′nĭ-ăk)
, Amˊmo-ni′a-cal
(ămˊmō̍-nī′ȧ-kal)
, } Adj.
Of, pertaining, or containing ammonia, or possessing its properties;
as, an
ammoniac
salt; ammoniacal
gas.Ammoniacal engine
, an engine in which the vapor of ammonia is used as the motive force.
– Sal ammoniac
[L.
, sal ammoniacus
]the salt usually called
chloride of ammonium
, and formerly muriate of ammonia
.Definition 2024
ammoniacal
ammoniacal
English
Adjective
ammoniacal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to or containing ammonia.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 231:
- A quick scent, sweet and ammoniacal, rose from her pubis.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 231:
Translations
pertaining to or containing ammonia
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French
Adjective
ammoniacal m (feminine singular ammoniacale, masculine plural ammoniacaux, feminine plural ammoniacales)