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Six example sentences with ammonia, each labelled with its topic.
Fermented shark on an Icelandic tasting plate gives off such a blast of ammonia that first-timers pinch their noses before the bite.
Cooking
Old ice rinks chilled their pipes with ammonia, and a leak announced itself with an eye-watering stench long before any gauge moved.
Technology
Architects once developed blueprints in ammonia vapor, and the copying room's sharp smell clung to everyone's clothes for the rest of the day.
Architecture
The Haber process makes ammonia by forcing nitrogen and hydrogen together under enormous pressure over an iron catalyst.
Science
Ammonia drifting from livestock sheds settles on nearby heathland, feeding grasses that crowd out the rarer plants.
Environment
Fritz Haber's ammonia synthesis in 1909 let farms produce fertilizer from air, and harvests around the world grew.
History
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