ammonium bicarbonate

noun

: a white crystalline salt NH₄HCO₃ made by passing carbon dioxide through an aqueous ammonia solution and used chiefly in baking powders and in fire-extinguishing compositions

called also ammonium acid carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate

Word History

First Known Use

1869, in the meaning defined above

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