ammonium carbonate
a water-soluble mixture of ammonium bicarbonate and ammonium carbamate, occurring either as a white powder or in colorless, hard, crystalline masses: used chiefly in the manufacture of smelling salts and baking powder.
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The liquor is poured off into a warm strong solution of ammonium carbonate.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringerammonium carbonate is added to the filtrate; this precipitates calcium, strontium and 63 barium.
Potassium iodid, alkaline agents such as ammonium carbonate and potassium carbonate, have been administered.
Lameness of the Horse | John Victor LacroixIt is then dissolved in a small quantity of alcohol and water, refiltered, and the filtrate decomposed with ammonium carbonate.
The second: a fifteen per cent solution of ammonium carbonate in water.
British Dictionary definitions for ammonium carbonate
an unstable pungent soluble white powder that is a double salt of ammonium bicarbonate and ammonium carbamate: used in the manufacture of baking powder, smelling salts, and ammonium compounds. Formula: (NH 4)HCO 3 .(NH 4)CO 2 NH 2
an unstable substance that is produced by treating this compound with ammonia. Formula: (NH 4) 2 CO 3
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