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  • Then come the first faint traces of the animal - warm, only slightly rank, ammoniacal, like a wet dog drying in the sun.
  • If the odor of the urine is strong, record whether the urine smells urinoid, fruity (like acetone or fingernail polish remover), putrid (fecal smelling) or ammoniacal (like ammonia).
  • Sal ammoniac factories existed but none produced enough to supply all dyehouses in France. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • His breath, an ammoniacal reek that could have blistered paintwork, made her blink. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • The ammoniacal acetone supernatant containing extracted pigments was discarded, and the lipoprotein pellet was suspended in 2 mL of homogenization buffer.
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  • Contributing to the stink was food in various stages of preservation or decay, cooked, uncooked, and rotten; burning oils, often rancid since fresh congealed lumps of fat were usually added to old oil in the lamps; baskets used for defecation, not always dumped immediately; containers of urine saved and left standing to become ammoniacal by the decomposition of urea through bacteria; and people. The Mammoth Hunters
  • With this object in view aluminium has been added from a separate crucible to the molten zinc at the moment of dipping the article to be zinced, so as to form a compound surface of zinco-aluminium, and to reduce the ashes formed from the protective coverings of sal-ammoniac, fat, glycerine, etc. Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing
  • “The stink of our state judiciary is growing too strongly ammoniac and hippuric for endurance,” wrote George Templeton Strong in his diary. A History of American Law
  • Cupron is highly selective for copper ion in ammoniacal solution and for molybdenum in acid.
  • Current research has shown an increase in soil acidification through anthropogenic effects including acid precipitation and nitrification of ammoniacal fertilizers.
  • L'ECARLATE ordinaire, ou couleur de feu, sera teinte de pure cochenille-mesteque, avec eau-forte, sel ammoniac, estain fin, amidon, sans aucun meslange de terramerita, ni de cochenille-sylvestre. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • It is a blend of many smells, of dung-fires and of cooking food, the sweet smell of new-cut hay and the ammoniacal smell of the horses, and the stench of human sewage in open pits, of leather and pitch and horse-sweat and woodshavings and sour beer. River God
  • “Kataba” would also be applied to striping the fingers with Henna which becomes a shining black under a paste of honey, lime and sal-ammoniac. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Scotch colley, -- a lean, wrinkled, dark-faced woman, who is unwinding the bandages from a squalling _Bambino_, -- a mixed odor of garlic and of goats, that is quickened with an ammoniacal pungency, -- and you may form some idea of the home of a small Roman farmer in our day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
  • Its natural form, at the temperature of the atmosphere, when free from combination, is that of gas; and in this state it is called _ammoniacal gas_. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
  • It is important that the sal ammoniac, which is the active agent of the cell, should be free from lumps in order to mix properly with the manganese and carbon. Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
  • `Sure, madam, it smells worse than hartshorn or sal ammoniac. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Continue to use any neutral or near-neutral cleaning product nonacidic, nonalkaline, nonammoniac, and avoid abrasives on sealed tile floors and counters. HOME COMFORTS
  • `Sure, madam, it smells worse than hartshorn or sal ammoniac. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • During the diaper-wearing years, this is usually ammoniacal dermatitis, commonly known as diaper rash.
  • On top of this was the smell of unwashed men and their festering wounds, cooking food and fermenting beer, unburied rubbish, and filth, the ammoniacal reek of the latrine pits and the dung heaps, and the even more biting stench of unburied corpses. Warlock
  • The place is stifling with the heavy ammoniac smell of chickens. TROPIC OF NIGHT
  • Diabetic ketoacidosis can cause urine to have a fruity or sweet odor, and alkaline fermentation can cause an ammoniacal odor after prolonged bladder retention.
  • The ammoniacal fluid was harsh, and smelled strong, but it dissolved oils and grease on her skin and in her hair, and it killed any lice or fleas she might have picked up. The Mammoth Hunters
  • The initial process to extract more color from cochineal called for the use of volatile spirit of sal ammoniac on the dregs of the typical boiling water extraction. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • It contains only ammoniacal nitrogen, which is protected from leaching immediately after application since it is held by cation exchange sites on soil clays and organic matter.
  • We have recorded reduced levels of chloride, nitrate-nitrite nitrogen, ammoniacal nitrogen, chemical oxygen and dissolved and suspended solids.
  • I still recoil at the memory of that ammoniacal, and demoniacal, assault on my eyes and nose. John B. Fenn - Autobiography
  • With a deep breath for courage, I picked up the vial of ammoniacal spirits. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • Cuprous carbide or acetylide is the reddish brown amorphous precipitate which is the ultimate product obtained when acetylene is led into an ammoniacal solution of cuprous chloride. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
  • With this object in view aluminium has been added from a separate crucible to the molten zinc at the moment of dipping the article to be zinced, so as to form a compound surface of zinco-aluminium, and to reduce the ashes formed from the protective coverings of sal-ammoniac, fat, glycerine, etc. Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing
  • Observations on the neutrally buoyant ammoniacal cephalopods of the mesopelagic zone are rare and based on submarine or ROV observations that are typically brief.
  • The common method for the manufacture of ammonia is to produce it from the salt known as sal-ammoniac. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
  • On examining the tables given above, it is obvious that guanos may be divided into two classes, the one characterized by the abundance of ammonia, the other by that of phosphates; and which, for convenience sake, may be called ammoniacal and phosphatic guanos. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
  • `Sure, madam, it smells worse than hartshorn or sal ammoniac. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • It is met with in Bnature only compounded with other bodies, in nitrous Tammoniac, or in common fal ammoniac, which is Ifotr. ecimcs found in the neighbourhood of volcanoes, lor coal fnincs which have burnt for a long time. The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ...
  • Some species live entirely in this restricted habitat, but most become ammoniacal late in ontogeny, as they approach semelparous reproduction.
  • States where he became manager of the Metacloth Company, a small enterprise in Lodi, N.J. whose main product was cotton duck treated by immersion in a concentrated ammoniacal solution of copper hydroxide followed by a wash in acid. John B. Fenn - Autobiography
  • Among these may be mentioned -- Alder Wright's method of using an ammoniacal salt, the acid radicle of which neutralises the caustic alkali, ammonia being liberated; the use of sodium and potassium bibasic phosphate (Eng.Pat. 25,357, 1899); a substance formed by treating albumen with formalin The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
  • These ammoniac egg cases/brood chambers closely resemble the female Argonauta shell, produced for this purpose by the adult argonaut.
  • This stuff is strongly ammoniacal and really needs to be used with care and ventilation.
  • Current research has shown an increase in soil acidification through anthropogenic effects including acid precipitation and nitrification of ammoniacal fertilizers.
  • The difficulties of transportation also made the use of sal ammoniac too expensive to be practical. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • a substance in South America called 'guana', which he had analysed and found to contain one-third of ammoniacal salt with other salts and carbon, but its use was not to come for another generation. A Short History of English Agriculture
  • His conclusions are that a copper acetylide is always produced if impure acetylene is allowed to pass through neutral or ammoniacal solutions of copper; that dry acetylene containing all its natural impurities except ammonia acts to an equal extent on copper and its alloys, yielding the explosive compound; that pure and dry gas does not act upon copper or its alloys, although it is possible that an explosive compound may be produced after a great length of time. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
  • Neutrally buoyant ammoniacal cephalopods in the mesopelagic are a limiting case in need of study.
  • He tried to tell himself it was only a dream, but the feel of the rough mattress-ticking beneath him and the fetid, faintly ammoniacal smell of feathers and old newspapers and bird dung argued otherwise. Fear Itself
  • Take of mixture of ammoniacum 4 oz., syrup of squill 3 drms., antimonial wine 60 drops, wine 1/2 oz., mix and cork. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
  • If the wine is examined according to the Falieres-Ritter method in presence of magenta, ether, when shaken up with the wine, previously rendered ammoniacal, remains colorless, while if archil or cudbear is present the ether is colored red. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
  • The same pyrolusite (binoxide of manganese) cylinder used with the same thin rod of zinc will precipitate 75 per cent. more copper from solution in an hour when caustic potash is used than when sal ammoniac is employed. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
  • Ammonium chloride is an effective restrainer, but gives off a strong ammoniacal smell and may shift print color toward the red.
  • Sal ammoniac was difficult to obtain throughout France in the quantity and quality dyehouses would require; differences between the results obtained from each source for sal ammoniac emphasized the need for standard materials. 4 Macquer and Pont considered the sources available; could Antoine Baumé's factory supply more consistently than those of Pia or Capelle? The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • Round the outside of some of these rings was a slow fire, which just singes the tops of the bits of rubber vine as they project over the collar or ring, and causes the milky juice to run out of the lower end into the calabash, giving out as it does so a strong ammoniacal smell. Travels in West Africa
  • Davie manufactured the sal ammoniac and, while Hutton had little if any involvement with the business, he was a lifelong partner and received an income from the venture. Hutton, James

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