| ammonium carbonate |
a carbonate of ammonium; used in the manufacture of smelling salts and baking powder and ammonium compounds
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| ammonium carbonate |
[NF] a mixture of ammonium bicarbonate and ammonium carbamate in varying proportions, used as an ingredient of aromatic ammonia spirit and as a source of ammonia in smelling salts. It has also been used as an expectorant. Called also hartshorn and sal volatile.
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| ammonium carbonate |
Ammonium carbonate. The commercial salt was formerly known as sal-volatile or salt of hartshorn and was formerly obtained by the dry distillation of nitrogenous organic matter such as hair, horn, decomposed urine, etc., but is now obtained by heating a mixture of sal-ammoniac, or ammonium sulfate and chalk, to redness in iron retorts, the vapours being condensed in leaden receivers. ...
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