AMMONIUM CHLORIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ammonium chloride mean? 

• AMMONIUM CHLORIDE (noun)
  The noun AMMONIUM CHLORIDE has 1 sense:

1. a white salt used in dry cells

  Familiarity information: AMMONIUM CHLORIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMMONIUM CHLORIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A white salt used in dry cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

ammonium chloride; sal ammoniac

Hypernyms ("ammonium chloride" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

 Context examples 

Ammonium chloride helps maintain pH and exerts a mild diuretic effect.

(Ammonium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The new results also find ammonia-bearing salts — ammonium chloride and/or ammonium bicarbonate — in Occator Crater.

(Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area, NASA)

The team investigated the effect of two commonly used quats: alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride and didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride.

(Common Household Chemicals Lead to Birth Defects in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)