"Ammoniacal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... well known that in Egypt, from the deficiency of wood, the excrement of animals is dried, and forms the principal fuel, and that the nitrogen from the soot of this excrement was, for many centuries, imported into Europe in the form of sal ammoniac, until a method of manufacturing this substance was discovered at the end of the last century by Gravenhorst of Brunswick. The fields in the delta of the Nile are supplied with no other animal manures than the ashes ...
— Familiar Letters of Chemistry • Justus Liebig
... ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common salt, rock alum, alum schist (?), arsenic, ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci |
