AMMONIA

AMMO'NIA, AMMO'NIAC, AMMONI'ACAL, adjective Pertaining to ammonia or possessing its properties.AMMO'NIAC, or AMMONIAC GUM, noun [See ammonia ]A gun resin, from Africa and the East, brought in large masses, composed of tears, internally white and externally yellow; supposed to be an exudation from an umbelliferous plant. it has a fetid smell, and a nauseous sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, soluble in water and spirit of wine, and is used in medicine, as a deobstruent, and resolvent.

---

Am‐mo″ni‐a (�), n. [[From sal ammoniac, which was first obtaining near the temple of Jupiter Ammon, by burning camel's dung. See Ammoniac.]] (Chem.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: — often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.