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Definition of Ammonia alum
1. Noun. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum.
Generic synonyms: Al, Aluminium, Aluminum, Atomic Number 13, Double Salt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ammonia Alum
Literary usage of Ammonia alum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"1 atom sulphate of potash - 1089-07 1 alumina - 2149-80 24 water - - 2669-52
Alumina Potash ammonia alum. Sulphate of ammonia - - 12-88 Sulphate of alumina ..."
2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1867)
"These results are, I think, about what one would expect when operating on ammonia
alum. According as the heat used be more or less intense or long continued ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In making ammonia alum, sulphate of ammonia is substituted for the potassium
sulphate (see ALUNITE). Some alums occur native. ..."
4. A Handbook of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1872)
"... Ammonia-alum is now far more extensively manufactured than potash-alum,
ammonia-alum is strongly heated, sulphate of ammonia, ..."
5. The Analyst (1879)
"Thus, three mixtures were made, containing respectively 28 grams, 10 grains, and
2 grains of very finely powdered and sifted ammonia alum to-lbs. of flour. ..."
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