ammonium carbonate
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A dozen cleaning agents were proposed before the restorers settled on a solution of distilled water and 25% ammonium carbonate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Formerly the washing was effected in stale urine, which owed its detergent properties mainly to the presence of ammonium carbonate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
Many forms in rivers, soil, manure heaps, &c., are capable of bringing about this change to ammonium carbonate, and much of the loss of volatile ammonia on farms is preventible if the facts are apprehended.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
Fermentation, ammonium carbonate formed during, 245; in bones, 365; heat of, 79; of farmyard manure, 253; of guano, 299; temperature of, 256.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton
Discovery of Uranium X In 1900 Crookes precipitated a solution of an active uranium salt with ammonium carbonate.
From A Brief Account of Radio-activity by Venable, Francis Preston
