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Six example sentences with ammonium, each labelled with its topic.
Old Scandinavian recipes call for ammonium carbonate, a leavening powder that puffs thin cookies far crisper than baking soda.
Cooking
Runoff from the dairy raised ammonium levels in the creek until algae smothered the trout spawning beds.
Environment
Fertilizer plants combine hydrogen and nitrogen to make the ammonium salts that crops absorb through their roots.
Science
The old zinc carbon cell used a paste of ammonium chloride, and the leaks that ruined toys came from that paste.
Technology
Rapid fixer uses an ammonium salt rather than a sodium one, so the print clears in half the time.
Photography
Smelling salts release a pungent gas from an ammonium carbonate, and the sharp jolt was once used to rouse fainting patients.
Medicine
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