Ammonia (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun Chemistry.
  1. 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.
  2. this gas dissolved in water; ammonium hydroxide.
noun
  1. a colourless pungent highly soluble gas mainly used in the manufacture of fertilizers, nitric acid, and other nitrogenous compounds, and as a refrigerant and solvent. Formula: NH 3
  2. a solution of ammonia in water, containing the compound ammonium hydroxide
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