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ammoniacal.

Adjective
Technical
MEANING

Containing ammonia or showing a chemical or sensory character associated with it.

Use it for

a sharp ammonia-like smell; an ammonia-containing solution; a chemical atmosphere described precisely; pungent vapor whose identity is not assumed from scent alone

Words that belong together

  • an ammoniacal odor
  • an ammoniacal solution
  • ammoniacal fumes

On the page

An ammoniacal odor reached the corridor before anyone found the leaking container.
The label warned that the solution was ammoniacal, not merely alkaline.

Nearby words

ammonia-likeammonia-containing

Related words

ammonia-likeammonia-containingammonia
Word forms
Base
ammoniacal

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Non-gradable chemical relation; compare odor or concentration explicitly. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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