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Ammoniacal

Definition: Ammoniacal

Ammoniacal

Adjective

1. Pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Ammoniacal

Synonym: ammoniac (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ammoniacal

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Gaseity

Elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ammoniacal

English words defined with "ammoniacal": Ammoniacal engineEthylamineGas waterLuteocobaltic chlorideMethyl aminePiperidineTar water. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ammoniacal": ammoniacal liquorEthanolamineHunt's processSodium Glutamate. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Ammoniacal

DomainTitle

References

  • The World Market for Fertilizers Containing Urea and Ammonium Nitrate Mixtures in Aqueous or Ammoniacal Solution: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ammoniacal

"Ammoniacal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Ammoniacal" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)80%4175,879
Noun (proper)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Ammoniacal

Expressions using "ammoniacal": Ammoniacal engine Ammoniacal fermentation ammoniacal liquor ammoniacal solution ammoniacal water. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ammoniacal

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  ammoniacal nitrogen

3

  ammoniacal etchants

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ammoniacal

Language Translations for "ammoniacal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏نشادري مؤلف من النشادر. (various references)

   

Danish

  

ammoniakvand (ammoniacal liquor, aqua ammonia, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), raaammoniakvand (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor), hydraulikvand (ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), gasvand (ammonia liquor, ammonia water, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ammoniakwater (ammonia water, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), ruw ammoniakwater (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ammoniakkivesi (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, crude ammonia liquor, flushing liquor, liquor), ammoniakkiliuos (ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), kaasuvesi (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor). (various references)

   

French

  

ammoniaque (ammonia, ammonia liquor, ammonia solution, ammoniac, ammonium hydrate, ammonium hydroxide, anhydrous ammonia dissolved in water, aqua ammonia). (various references)

   

German

  

Ammoniakwasser (ammonia liquor, ammonia water, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, crude ammonia liquor, flushing liquor, liquor), Ammoniakrohwasser (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor), ammoniakhaltiges Wasser (ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), Spülwasser (ammoniacal liquor, condensate, dishwater, flushing liquor, liquor, rinsing water, wash, washing-up water, water for rinsing), Spülflüssigkeit (ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), Kuehlerkondensat (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, crude ammonia liquor, flushing liquor, liquor), Gaswasser (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αμμωνιακόν ύδωρ (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, crude ammonia liquor, flushing liquor, liquor), αμμωνιακό διάλυμα (ammoniacal solution). (various references)

   

Italian

  

acqua ammoniacale (ammonia water, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

銅アンモニア法 (cuprous ammoniacal process). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

どうアンモニアほう (cuprous ammoniacal process). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ammoniacalay

   

Portuguese

  

amoniacal. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

amoníaco (ammonia, ammoniac). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ammoniakvatten (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, crude ammonia liquor, flushing liquor, liquor). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Ammoniacal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-i-l-m-m-n-o"

-2 letters: ammoniac, maniacal.

-3 letters: almanac, ammonal, ammonia, ammonic, limacon, mailman, manioca.

-4 letters: alnico, ammino, animal, anomic, caiman, calami, camail, camion, canola, lamina, maniac, manila, manioc, oilcan, oilman.

-5 letters: alamo, aloin, amain, amino, amnia, amnic, amnio, anima, canal, claim, coala, colin, comal, comma, lamia, lanai, liana, liman, linac, macon, malic, mania, manic, nicol.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-i-l-m-m-n-o"
 

+2 letters: megalomaniac, monomaniacal.

 

+3 letters: megalomaniacs.

 

+4 letters: megalomaniacal, monomaniacally, nongrammatical, nymphomaniacal.

 

+5 letters: accommodational, microanatomical, nonmathematical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ammoniacal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6D 6D 6F 6E 69 61 63 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101101 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100001 01100011 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 006D 006F 006E 0069 0061 0063 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35797981807567696778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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