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spirit of hartshorn
spirit of hartshorn
noun Chemistry.
a colorless, pungent, suffocating, aqueous solution of about 28.5 percent ammonia gas: used chiefly as a detergent, for removing stains and extracting certain vegetable coloring agents, and in the manufacture of ammonium salts.
Also, spirits of hartshorn.
Origin:
1675–85
1675–85
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Spirit of hartshorn
is always a great word to know.
So is inorganic. Does it mean:
| any of the electronegative elements, fluorine, chlorine, iodine, bromine, and astatine, that form binary salts by direct union with metals |
| pertaining to compounds that are not hydrocarbons or their derivatives |
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