sal ammoniac

Thân thiện

A chemist carefully weighs sal ammoniac on a laboratory scale.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A white, crystalline salt: Sal ammoniac is a chemical compound, primarily ammonium chloride (NH₄Cl), appearing as a white, odorless, crystalline solid.
   • Used in dry cells: Historically and in some specific applications, it is used as an electrolyte in certain types of dry cell batteries.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The alchemist carefully weighed the sal ammoniac on the scale.
  • Some early battery designs relied on sal ammoniac as a key component.

Advanced Usage

• Historical and Industrial Context: Sal ammoniac has been known since antiquity and was historically produced from the soot of burning camel dung. It is used in metallurgy as a flux for soldering and tin-plating, and in chemistry as a source of ammonia.
  • The artisan used sal ammoniac as a flux to clean the metal surface before soldering.

Variants and Related Words

• Ammonium Chloride (n): The systematic chemical name for sal ammoniac.
  • Ammonium chloride is the modern term for the compound once known as sal ammoniac.

Synonyms

• Ammonium chloride: The direct chemical synonym.
• NH₄Cl: The chemical formula.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a white salt used in dry cells

Từ đồng nghĩa

• ammonium chloride