spirits of ammonia

noun

1. functioning as singular or plural another name for sal volatile

Example Sentences

“You’re in the manager’s office. They’re all running around looking for spirits of ammonia and doctors and things to bring you to. They’d just run out of ammonia, apparently. How do you feel? No kidding.”

From Literature

What is more, I'll have a glass of lemonade ready, with aromatic spirits of ammonia in it.

From Project Gutenberg

Well, I’m a graduate in pharmacy, you know, and so I fixed him up a little aromatic spirits of ammonia in a glass of soda-water.

From Project Gutenberg

Alcohol, Spirits.—Give half a teaspoonful of aromatic spirits of ammonia in sweetened water every half hour.

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Ten-drop doses of the aromatic spirits of ammonia may be employed instead of the carbonate, given in sweetened water.

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