Ammonia vs. Ammonium

Ammonianoun

(inorganic compound) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste

Ammonianoun

a solution of this compound in water used domestically as a cleaning fluid

Ammonianoun

A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: - often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.

Ammonianoun

a pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3)

Ammonianoun

a water solution of ammonia

Ammonianoun

a colourless gas with a characteristic pungent smell, which dissolves in water to give a strongly alkaline solution.

Ammonianoun

a solution of ammonia, used as a cleaning fluid.

Ammonia

Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3. A stable binary hydride, and the simplest pnictogen hydride, ammonia is a colourless gas with a distinct characteristic of a pungent smell.

Ammoniumnoun

(inorganic chemistry) The univalent NH4+ cation, derived by the protonation of ammonia

Ammoniumnoun

Any similar cation formed by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms with alkyl or aryl radicals

Ammoniumnoun

A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals.

Ammoniumnoun

the ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion

Ammonium

The ammonium cation is a positively charged polyatomic ion with the chemical formula NH+4. It is formed by the protonation of ammonia (NH3).