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ammonia

/uh-mohn-yuh, uh-moh-nee-uh/US // əˈmoʊn yə, əˈmoʊ ni ə //UK // (əˈməʊnɪə, -njə) //

氨,氨气,氨水,氨氨

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chemistry.

    • : a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water-soluble, gaseous compound, NH3, usually produced by the direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen gases: used chiefly for refrigeration and in the manufacture of commercial chemicals and laboratory reagents.
    • : Also called aqueous ammonia, ammonia solution, ammonia water . this gas dissolved in water; ammonium hydroxide.

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Examples

  • Another option is to convert renewable electricity into some other form of relatively clean energy, such as hydrogen, ethanol, or ammonia.

  • Since ammonia is toxic to humans, such leaks require immediate action, involving lengthy spacewalks to identify holes in the coolant system and repair them.

  • The ISS has previously dealt with ammonia leaks coming from the station’s cooling loops.

  • Jain’s discovery could allow workers to transport ammonia instead, which is safer, and then free the hydrogen from the ammonia once it has arrived where’s it needed.

  • It turns out there was an ammonia feed going into the tap water, and when they turned it off, the phone stopped ringing.

  • Is she back in the orphanage where it smells like ammonia and cooked cabbage?

  • The plant was checked out only when the state agency received a complaint about a strong ammonia smell.

  • He instinctively knew it was coming from the 50-year-old fertilizer plant and ammonia storage facility a few blocks away.

  • It runs on combustible poison—ammonia and pressurized hydrogen.

  • But the ammonia leak in November, and now the radiation leak and deteriorating tubes, might lead some to conclude otherwise.

  • They are dissolved by strong hydrochloric acid, and recrystallize as octahedra upon addition of ammonia.

  • On the other side the ammonia brought out a picture of the Victory, with the head of a roaring lion below it.

  • His results for ammonia, as well as nitric acid, are given in the subjoined table.

  • Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, but it cannot be formed by the direct union of these gases.

  • It appears also, as far as absorption goes, to be immaterial whether the ammonia is free or combined.