ammonium
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: əmō'nēəm, IPA(key): /əˈmoʊni.əm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
ammonium (usually uncountable, plural ammoniums)
- (inorganic chemistry) The univalent NH4+ cation, derived by the protonation of ammonia
- (organic chemistry, especially in combination) Any similar cation formed by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms with alkyl or aryl radicals
Derived terms
- alkylammonium
- ammonian
- ammonitrate
- ammonium acetate
- ammonium bicarbonate
- ammonium bisulfate
- ammonium carbamate
- ammonium carbonate
- ammonium chloride
- ammonium hydroxide
- ammonium imine
- ammonium laureth sulfate
- ammoniumlike
- ammonium nitrate
- ammonium phosphate
- ammonium phosphatide
- ammonium polyvanadate
- ammonium sulfate
- ammonium sulphate
- ammoniumyl
- ammonium ylide
- benzyldimethylhexadecylammonium
- bisammonium
- butylammonium
- ceric ammonium nitrate
- cetyltriethylammonium
- cetyltrimethlyammonium
- cetyltrimethylammonium
- cuprammonium
- cuproammonium
- dialkylammonium
- diammonium
- diazonium
- ferric ammonium citrate
- mercurammonium
- metalammonium
- methylammonium
- monoammonium
- onium
- oxoammonium
- polyammonium
- quaternary ammonium
- quaternary ammonium compound
- quaternium
- rhodammonium
- tetraalkylammonium
- tetrabutylammonium
- tetradecyltrimethylammonium
- tetraethylammonium
- triammonium
- tricyclohexylammonium
- triethylammonium
- trimethylphenylammonium
Translations
univalent NH4+ cation
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Etymology
Internationalism, ultimately from Latin ammonium.
Pronunciation
Noun
ammonium
- (chemistry) ammonium; used as mass noun, see also ammoniumioni (“ammonium”)
- Korkea ammoniumin pitoisuus häiritsee aivojen aineenvaihduntaa.
- A high concentration of ammonium disturbs the metabolism of the brain.
Declension
| Inflection of ammonium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | ammonium | — | |
| genitive | ammoniumin | — | |
| partitive | ammoniumia | — | |
| illative | ammoniumiin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | ammonium | — | |
| accusative | nom. | ammonium | — |
| gen. | ammoniumin | ||
| genitive | ammoniumin | — | |
| partitive | ammoniumia | — | |
| inessive | ammoniumissa | — | |
| elative | ammoniumista | — | |
| illative | ammoniumiin | — | |
| adessive | ammoniumilla | — | |
| ablative | ammoniumilta | — | |
| allative | ammoniumille | — | |
| essive | ammoniumina | — | |
| translative | ammoniumiksi | — | |
| abessive | ammoniumitta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
Pronunciation
Noun
ammonium m (plural ammoniums)
Further reading
- “ammonium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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