Ammonia is a sharp-smelling gas dissolved in cleaning liquids. Smell of ammonia, ammonia cleaner, dilute ammonia.
Never mix it with bleach: the two make chloramine gas, which has killed people cleaning bathrooms. Making it from air is one of the most consequential inventions there is — the Haber process feeds a large share of the world through fertiliser. It is named after a temple in Egypt.
1nounammoniaA sharp-smelling gas used in cleaning liquids.
“The cleaning liquid smelled strongly of ammonia.”
ammonia is a chemical.
From Latin sal ammoniacus, salt of Ammon, named after the temple of the god Ammon in Egypt where it was found.
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From Latin ammoniacus, from Ammōn. From Latin sal ammoniacus (“salt of Amun, ammonium chloride”), named so because it was found near the temple of (Jupiter) Ammon in Egypt. Ammon derives from Ancient Greek Ἄμμων, from egy - jmn (i-mn:n-A4).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA