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A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.
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Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.
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Combined or impregnated with ammonia.
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Any fossil ammonite of the genus Turrilites. The shell forms an open spiral with the later whorls separate.
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A salt of uric acid; as, sodium urate; ammonium urate.
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Of or pertaining to ammonia.
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An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.
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Alt. of Gum ammoniac
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A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.
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A white crystalline substance, NH2.CO.OC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate. It is used somewhat in medicine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type.
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A base, C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids.
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Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.
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A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N.(CH3)3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.
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Capable of taking up, or of uniting with, certain other elements or compounds, without the elimination of any side product; thus, aldehyde, ethylene, and ammonia are unsaturated.
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Having a valence of three; capable of being combined with, substituted for, or compared with, three atoms of hydrogen; -- said of triad atoms or radicals; thus, nitrogen is trivalent in ammonia.
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The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.
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Alt. of Ammoniacal
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Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by the action of ammonia on pyrotartaric acid.
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Containing fossil ammonites.
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of Cornu Ammonis
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