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Definition: Ammonium |
AmmoniumNoun1. The ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ammonium" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
Note: Ammonium \Am*mo"ni*um\, noun. [See Ammonia.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| AM NIT | English | Ammonium Nitrate | Chemistry |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ammonium has been isolated in amalgam, but not as a solid metal.
See also hydronium.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ammonium."
Synonym: AmmoniumSynonym: ammonium ion (n). (additional references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Electrical transformers in one of the TVA plants in the Muscle Shoals area, producing war materials by gas synthesis. These plants make ammonia for conversion into ammonium nitrate for use in the man.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | Saudi Arabia and Tunisia cooperated to set up the Sino-Arab Chemical Fertilizer Co., Ltd. to produce ammonium phosphorous and Israel cooperated with a Chinese firm to produce potassium fertilizer. (references) | |
Political Economy | PERU | Import licenses have been abolished for all products except firearms, munitions and explosives; chemical precursors (used in illegal narcotics production); ammonium nitrate fertilizer (which has been used as a blast enhancer for terrorist car bombs); wild plant and animal species; and some radio and communication equipment. (references) |
Trade | Peru | The only remaining products requiring licenses are firearms, munitions and explosives imported by private persons, chemical precursors (applicable to cocaine production) and ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which has been used as a blast enhancer for terrorist car bombs. (references) |
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| "Ammonium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ammonium" is used about 101 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 101 | 32,488 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ammonium": ammonium acetate ♦ ammonium alum ♦ ammonium aluminium sulphate ♦ ammonium amhydride ♦ ammonium bicarbonate ♦ ammonium bisulphite ♦ ammonium carbamate ♦ ammonium carbonate ♦ ammonium chlorate ♦ Ammonium Chloride ♦ Ammonium Compounds ♦ Ammonium cyanate ♦ ammonium fluoride ♦ ammonium hydrosulphide ♦ ammonium hydroxide ♦ ammonium ion ♦ ammonium iron bis(sulphate) ♦ ammonium nitrate ♦ ammonium nitrite ♦ ammonium oxalate ♦ ammonium persulphate ♦ ammonium phosphate ♦ ammonium purpurate ♦ ammonium salts ♦ Ammonium Sulfate ♦ ammonium sulphate ♦ ammonium sulphide ♦ ammonium sulphocyanide ♦ ceric ammonium nitrate ♦ chloride of ammonium ♦ ferric ammonium citrate ♦ ferric ammonium sulphate ♦ quaternary ammonium compound. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "ammonium": nitrate-ammonium, tnt-ammonium. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Arabic | نشادر (ammonia, smelling salts), الأمونيوم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | амоний, амониев радикал, амониев. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 銨 (to allow, to comply with, to follow), 錏 (fall of snow), , 氨盐基. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ammoniumferrosulfat (ammonium ferrous sulphate, FeSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O, Mohr's salt), ammoniumoxalat (ammonium oxalate), ammoniumnitrit (ammonium nitrite), ammoniumnitrat (ammonium nitrate, nitrate of ammonia), ammoniumnatriumorthophosphat (ammonium sodium orthophosphate, microcosmic salt, NaNH4HPO4.4H2O), ammoniumkobberchlorid (ammonium chloromercurate, ammonium mercuric chloride), ammoniumklorid (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), Ammoniumhydrogenfluorid (Ammonium bifluoride, Ammonium hydrogen difluoride), ammoniumreineckat (ammonium reineckate, ammonium tetrathiocyanatodiamminochromate, NH4(Cr(NH3)2(SCN)4).H2O, reinecke salt), ammoniumfluorid (ammonium fluoride), ammoniumphosphatider (ammonium phosphatides), ammoniumferrocyanid (ammonium ferrocyanide), ammoniumferrichlorid (ammonium ferric chloride), ammoniumdichromat (ammonium dichromate), ammoniumchromat (ammonium chromate), ammonium-cerinitrat (ammonium ceric nitrate), ammoniumcarbonat (ammonium carbonate containing ammonium carbamate), ammoniumcarbamat (ammonium carbamate, NH2COONH4), ammoniumborat (ammonium borate), ammoniakalun (ammonium alun), ammoniumformiat (ammonium formate), ammoniumselenat (ammonium selenate), ammoniumvanadat (ammonium vanadate), amoniaklugt (ammonium smell), ammoniumsalt (ammonium salt), ammoniumorthophosphat (ammonium orthophosphate), E442 (ammonium phosphatides), salpetersur ammoniak (ammonium nitrate, nitrate of ammonia), salmiaklugt (ammonium smell), salmiak (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), oploesninger af ammoniumcitrat,ammoniumsulfat,hydroxylammoniumchlorid og kaliumcyanid kan goeres blyfri ved extraktion med dithizon i chloroformoploesning (ammonium citrate, ammonium sulphate, hydroxylamine hydrochloride and potassium cyanide solutions are rendered lead-free by extracting with dithizone in chloroform solution), NaNH4HPO4.4H2O (ammonium sodium orthophosphate, microcosmic salt, NaNH4HPO4.4H2O), Mohr's salt (ammonium ferrous sulphate, FeSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O, Mohr's salt), kvaternaer ammoniumforbindelse (quaternary ammonium compound), E380 (triammonium citrate, tribasic ammonium citrate), E295 (ammonium formate), dobbelsulfat af ammonium og nikkel (ammonium nickel sulphate, NiSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O), dobbelsulfat af ammonium og cobalt (ammonium cobalt sulphate, CoSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O), ceriumammoniumnitrat (ceric ammonium nitrate), triammoniumcitrat (triammonium citrate, tribasic ammonium citrate), jern-ammoniumalun (ammonium iron bis(sulphate), ferric alum, ferric ammonia alum, ferric ammonium sulphate, iron alum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ammoniumdichromaat (ammonium dichromate), ammoniumselenaat (ammonium selenate), ammoniumreineckaat (ammonium reineckate, ammonium tetrathiocyanatodiamminochromate, NH4(Cr(NH3)2(SCN)4).H2O, reinecke salt), ammoniumoxalaat (ammonium oxalate), ammoniumorthofosfaat (ammonium orthophosphate), ammoniumnitriet (ammonium nitrite), ammoniumnitraat (ammonium nitrate, nitrate of ammonia), ammoniumijzer-II-sulfaat (ammonium ferrous sulphate, FeSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O, Mohr's salt), ammoniumhydroxide (ammonia liquor, ammonia solution, ammonium hydrate, ammonium hydroxide, anhydrous ammonia dissolved in water, aqua ammonia), ammoniumgroep (ammonium group), ammoniumfosfatiden (ammonium phosphatides), ammoniumformiaat (ammonium formate), ammoniumvanadaat (ammonium vanadate), ammoniumferrocyanide (ammonium ferrocyanide), Ammoniumwaterstofdifluoride (Ammonium bifluoride, Ammonium hydrogen difluoride), ammoniumchromaat (ammonium chromate), ammoniumchloride (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), ammoniumcarbaminaathoudend ammoniumcarbonaat (ammonium carbonate containing ammonium carbamate), ammoniumboraat (ammonium borate), ammoniumbicarbaminaat (ammonium carbamate, NH2COONH4), ammoniumbicarbamaat (ammonium carbamate, NH2COONH4), ammoniakzout (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), ammoniakreuk (ammonium smell), ammoniaklucht (ammonium smell), ammoniakaluin (aluminium ammonium sulphate, ammonium alum, ammonium alun), ammonia (ammonia, ammonia liquor, ammonia solution, ammonium hydrate, ammonium hydroxide, anhydrous ammonia dissolved in water, aqua ammonia), aluminiumammoniumsulfaat (aluminium ammonium sulphate, ammonium alum), ammoniumfluoride (ammonium fluoride), ammonsalpeter (ammonium nitrate, nitrate of ammonia), ammoniumzout (ammonium salt), ammoniumtetrathiocyaandiammonochromaat (ammonium reineckate, ammonium tetrathiocyanatodiamminochromate, NH4(Cr(NH3)2(SCN)4).H2O, reinecke salt), oplossingen van ammonium-citraat,ammoniumsulfaat,hydrochloride van hydroxylamine en van potassium-cyanide worden loodvrij gemaakt door middel van extractie met een chloroformoplossing van dithizon (ammonium citrate, ammonium sulphate, hydroxylamine hydrochloride and potassium cyanide solutions are rendered lead-free by extracting with dithizone in chloroform solution), Mohr's zout (ammonium ferrous sulphate, FeSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O, Mohr's salt), NaNH4HPO4.4H2O (ammonium sodium orthophosphate, microcosmic salt, NaNH4HPO4.4H2O), natriumammoniumorthofosfaat (ammonium sodium orthophosphate, microcosmic salt, NaNH4HPO4.4H2O), NH4.CO2.NH2 (ammonium carbamate, NH2COONH4), NH4VO2 (ammonium vanadate), nikkelammoniumsulfaat (ammonium nickel sulphate, NiSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O), in water opgelost ammoniakgas (ammonia liquor, ammonia solution, ammonium hydrate, ammonium hydroxide, anhydrous ammonia dissolved in water, aqua ammonia), quaternaire ammoniumverbinding (quaternary ammonium compound), Reineckezout (ammonium reineckate, ammonium tetrathiocyanatodiamminochromate, NH4(Cr(NH3)2(SCN)4).H2O, reinecke salt), salmiak (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), triammoniumcitraat (triammonium citrate, tribasic ammonium citrate), E442 (ammonium phosphatides), tribasisch ammoniumcitraat (triammonium citrate, tribasic ammonium citrate), ceri-ammoniumnitraat (ammonium ceric nitrate), ceriumammoniumnitraat (ceric ammonium nitrate), mercuriammoniumchloride (ammonium chloromercurate, ammonium mercuric chloride), E380 (triammonium citrate, tribasic ammonium citrate), kobaltammoniumsulfaat (ammonium cobalt sulphate, CoSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O), ferriammoniumchloride (ammonium ferric chloride). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ammoniumkarbonaatit (E503 ammonium carbonates, E503i ammonium carbonate, E503ii ammonium hydrogen carbonate), ammoniumfosfatidit (ammonium phosphatides, E442), ammoniumformiaatti (ammonium formate, E295), ammoniakin haju (ammonium smell), triammoniumsitraatti (E380, triammonium citrate, tribasic ammonium citrate), seriumammoniumnitraatti (ceric ammonium nitrate), kvaternaarinen ammoniumyhdiste (quaternary ammonium compound), E 503 (E503 ammonium carbonates, E503i ammonium carbonate, E503ii ammonium hydrogen carbonate), E 442 (ammonium phosphatides, E442), E 380 (E380, triammonium citrate, tribasic ammonium citrate), E 295 (ammonium formate, E295). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ammonium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ammoniumchromat (ammonium chromate), Ammoniumorthophosphat (ammonium orthophosphate), Ammoniumnitrat (ammonium nitrate), Ammoniumnatriumhydrogenphosphat (ammonium sodium orthophosphate, microcosmic salt, NaNH4HPO4.4H2O), Ammoniumkobaltsulfat (ammonium cobalt sulphate, CoSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O), Ammoniumhydrogendifluorid (Ammonium bifluoride, Ammonium hydrogen difluoride), Ammoniumgruppe (ammonium group), Ammoniumformiat (ammonium formate, E295), Ammoniumfluorid (ammonium fluoride), Ammoniumferrocyanid (ammonium ferrocyanide), Ammoniumeisen-II-sulfat (ammonium ferrous sulphate, FeSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O, Mohr's salt), Ammoniumeisen-III-chlorid (ammonium ferric chloride), Ammoniumoxalat (ammonium oxalate), Ammoniumdichromat (ammonium dichromate), Ammoniumnitrit (ammonium nitrite), Ammoniumchlorid (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), Ammoniumcerinitrat (ammonium ceric nitrate), Ammoniumcarbamat (ammonium carbamate, NH2COONH4), Ammoniumborat (ammonium borate), Ammoniumbifluorid (Ammonium bifluoride, Ammonium hydrogen difluoride), Ammonium-Aluminiumsulfat (ammonium alun), Ammoniumalaun (ammonium alun), Ammoniaksalpeterdünger (ammonium nitrate, nitrate of ammonia), Ammoniakalaun (aluminium ammonium sulphate, ammonium alum), Ammoniaflüssigkeit (ammonia liquor, ammonia solution, ammonium hydrate, ammonium hydroxide, anhydrous ammonia dissolved in water, aqua ammonia), Aluminiumammoniumsulfat (aluminium ammonium sulphate, ammonium alum), Ammoniumquecksilberchlorid (ammonium chloromercurate, ammonium mercuric chloride), Ammoniumreineckat (ammonium reineckate, ammonium tetrathiocyanatodiamminochromate, NH4(Cr(NH3)2(SCN)4).H2O, reinecke salt), Ammoniumsalz (ammonium salt, sal ammoniac), Ammoniumselenat (ammonium selenate), Ammoniumtetrarhodanodiammin-chromat-III (ammonium reineckate, ammonium tetrathiocyanatodiamminochromate, NH4(Cr(NH3)2(SCN)4).H2O, reinecke salt), Ammoniumvanadat (ammonium vanadate), Ammonsalpeter (ammonium nitrate), Ammoniumnickelsulfat (ammonium nickel sulphate, NiSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O), Ammoniumphosphatide (ammonium phosphatides, E442), NH4.COO.NH2 (ammonium carbamate, NH2COONH4), NH4NaHPO4.4H2O (ammonium sodium orthophosphate, microcosmic salt, NaNH4HPO4.4H2O), Phosphorsalz (ammonium sodium orthophosphate, microcosmic salt, NaNH4HPO4.4H2O, phosphorescent salt), quaternaere Ammoniumverbindung (quaternary ammonium compound), Reinecke-Salz (ammonium reineckate, ammonium tetrathiocyanatodiamminochromate, NH4(Cr(NH3)2(SCN)4).H2O, reinecke salt), Salmiak (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), E503 Ammoniumcarbonate (E503 ammonium carbonates, E503i ammonium carbonate, E503ii ammonium hydrogen carbonate), Mohrsches Salz (ammonium ferrous sulphate, FeSO4.(NH4)2SO4.6H2O, Mohr's salt), handelsübliches Ammoniumkarbonat (ammonium carbonate containing ammonium carbamate), Eisenammoniumalaun (ammonium iron bis(sulphate), ferric alum, ferric ammonia alum, ferric ammonium sulphate, iron alum), E503i Ammoniumcarbonat (E503 ammonium carbonates, E503i ammonium carbonate, E503ii ammonium hydrogen carbonate), E442 (ammonium phosphatides, E442), E380 (E380, triammonium citrate, tribasic ammonium citrate), E295 (ammonium formate, E295), Chlorammonium (ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac), Cer-Ammonium-Nitrat (ceric ammonium nitrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμμώνιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אמו יום. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ammónium-csoport, ammónia (ammonia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ammonio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アンモニア水 (ammonia water, aqueous ammonia, eagle, Easter, easy, easy care, easy going, easy listening music, easy order, easy payment, EC, ether, etherboard, Ethernet, European Community, loose-fitting pants with an elastic or drawcord waist, routine fly ball, unlock, unlucky, unmoral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アンモニウ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 염" (Chlorination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ammonium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ammoniumay amônio. (various references) amoniu. (various references) аммоний. (various references) amonijumov, amonijum. (various references) amonio. (various references) ammonium. (various references) amonyum. (various references) амоній. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "ammonium": ammoniums. (additional references) | |
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"Ammonium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ammoni, annium, anobium, Arminium, Jasminium, Maiorium. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ammonium" (pronounced umō"nēum) |
| 7 | u m ō" n ē u m | pandemonium. |
| 6 | -m ō" n ē u m | harmonium. |
| 5 | -ō" n ē u m | gonium, plutonium, polonium, zirconium. |
| 4 | -n ē u m | condominium, geranium, hafnium, millennium, minium, neptunium, selenium, titanium, uranium. |
| 3 | -ē u m | alluvium, aquarium, atrium, auditorium, axiom, bacterium, barium, beryllium, cadmium, calcium, cesium, chromium, colloquium, compendium, consortium, crematorium, delirium, deuterium, disequilibrium, emporium, equilibrium, europium, fermium, gallium, gymnasium, helium, Herbarium, holmium, honorarium, idiom, indium, iridium, lawrencium, linoleum, lithium, magnesium, medium, moratorium, myocardium, nephridium, niobium, nobelium, opium, opprobrium, osmium, palladium, paramecium, petroleum, planetarium, Plasmodium, podium, potassium, premium, presidium, promethium, protium, psyllium, radium, requiem, rhodium, sodium, stadium, strontium, superpremium, symposium, tedium, tellurium, thallium, thorium, tritium, vanadium, yttrium. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-m-m-n-o-u" | |
-2 letters: ammino, mammon. | |
-3 letters: amino, amnio, imaum, miaou, momma, onium. | |
-4 letters: amin, ammo, imam, maim, main, mano, maun, mina, moan, momi, mumm, muni, muon, naoi, noma, unai. | |
-5 letters: aim, ain, ami, amu, ani, ion, man, mim, moa, mom, mon, mum, mun, nam, nim, nom, umm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-m-m-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: ammoniums. | |
+3 letters: communalism. | |
+4 letters: communalisms, somnambulism. | |
+5 letters: anticommunism, mummification, somnambulisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 6D 6F 6E 69 75 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m m o n i u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 006D 006F 006E 0069 0075 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3579798180758779 |
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