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Ammonium carbonate   /əmˈoʊniəm kˈɑrbənˌeɪt/   Listen
Ammonium carbonate

noun
1.
A carbonate of ammonium; used in the manufacture of smelling salts and baking powder and ammonium compounds.





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"Ammonium carbonate" Quotes from Famous Books



... most important. They may be prepared by the dry distillation of the ammonium salts of the acids (A. W. Hofmann, Ber., 1882, 15, p. 977), by the partial hydrolysis of the nitriles, by the action of ammonia or ammonium carbonate on acid chlorides or anhydrides, or by heating the esters (q.v.) with ammonia. They are solid crystalline compounds (formamide excepted) which are at first soluble in water, the solubility, however, decreasing as the carbon content of the molecule ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... complete and rapidly working method for the examination of zinciferous products has originated with the application of neutral ammonium carbonate as solvent. A solution of this preparation is made, according to H. Rose, by dissolving 230 grm. commercial ammon carbonate in 180 c.c. ammoniacal liquor of 0.92 s.g., and, by addition of water, augmenting it ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 • Various


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