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Alkaligen

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volalkalinoun(obsolete, inorganic chemistry) ammonia (volatile alkali)
alkaline airnoun(chemistry, now historical) Ammonia.
alkalidenoun(chemistry) A chemical compound in which alkali metals are anions (i.e. they bear a negative charge).
alkalamidenoun(chemistry) One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.
alkinenounSynonym of alkylamine.
liquid ammonianoun(inorganic chemistry) Pure ammonia cooled or condensed to the liquid state.
ammonianounA solution of this compound in water used domestically as a cleaning fluid.
alkaloidnoun(organic chemistry) Any of many organic (often heterocyclic) bases that occur in nature and often have medicinal properties.
ammonium nitratenoun(inorganic chemistry) The ammonium salt of nitric acid, NH₄NO₃; it is used in fertilizers and explosives (notoriously in improvised explosive devices, though its main importance is as an explosive in its own right and in mixtures such as amatol and ANFO).
alkalinoun(chemistry) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.
ammoniumnoun(inorganic chemistry) The univalent NH₄⁺ cation, derived by the protonation of ammonia
spirit of nitrenoun(obsolete) Nitric acid.
alkylnitratenoun(organic chemistry) Any aliphatic nitrate
aminenoun(organic chemistry) Any organic compound containing an amine functional group.
ammonionoun(organic chemistry, in combination) A chemical group (-NH₃⁺) derived from the ammonium cation.
azotenoun(now historical) Nitrogen.
sal ammoniacnoun(chemistry, archaic) ammonium chloride.
nitric acidnoun(inorganic chemistry) A transparent, colorless to pale yellow, fuming corrosive liquid, HNO₃; a highly reactive oxidizing agent used in the production of fertilizers, explosives, and rocket fuels and in a wide variety of industrial processes; once called aqua fortis.
nitronoun(uncountable, chemistry) The univalent NO₂ functional group.
ammoniatenoun(inorganic chemistry) Any compound containing ammonia bound as a ligand.

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