How to Use ammonium in a Sentence

ammonium

noun

• And the ammonium version is milder than the sodium version.
  — Deena Campbell, SELF, 10 Aug. 2017
• The telltale signs of ignited ammonium — reddish smoke — spewed from the blast, Lewis said.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2020
• Officials said the package appeared to be a bomb and smelled like ammonium.
  — Fox News, 19 Sep. 2019
• To help get rid of flakes, look for a lotion with ammonium lactate or alpha-hydroxy acid.
  — Lindsay Modglin, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023
• The explosion was caused by 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrates that had been stored in the port for six years before exploding.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2020
• The process is strongly inhibited in the presence of ammonium, which mainly comes from proteins in waste.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
• This tide then reduces the amount of light that reaches the seagrasses and creates conditions of low oxygen as well as an increase in ammonium and sulfates.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2019
• The drink does contain ammonium ferric citrate, which is technically iron, but it is not brewed.
  — Palko Karasz, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• It's been 20 years since Elle Woods first scream-cried in that restaurant and kicked off an unforgettable journey about love, self worth, and ammonium thioglycolate.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 13 July 2021
• And in soils that contain nitrate but little to no ammonium, cranberries, blueberries, rhododendrons and azaleas are, for the most part, a non-starter.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2019
• Unlike ammonium nitrate, TATP is typically seen in small quantities, not in the tens of pounds.
  — C. J. Chivers, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2016
• Takata’s troubles stem from use of the explosive chemical ammonium nitrate in the inflators to deploy air bags in a crash.
  — Tom Krisher and Marcy Gordon, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2017
• Takata's troubles stem from use of the explosive chemical ammonium nitrate in the inflators to deploy air bags in a crash.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 26 June 2017
• For more than two weeks, a stench of feces, ammonium and laundry detergent wafted through the air in the southwestern corner of the continental United States.
  — Elliot Spagat, Orange County Register, 4 Mar. 2017
• Mazepin asked the president to help to re-start ammonium fertilizer shipments via Ukraine’s Odesa port as part of a grain shipment deal that was extended last week.
  — Bloomberg.com, 22 Nov. 2022
• Takata uses ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion that inflates air bags in a crash.
  — Tom Krishner, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2017
• In agricultural pollution, a key precursor of PM2.5, ammonium, may be more damaging to the brain, the researchers found.
  — Abdullahi Tsanni, STAT, 14 Aug. 2023
• The first is to coat the fabric in a liquid solution that contains metals like silver ions; metal oxides like copper oxide; or compounds of ammonium.
  — Kate Greene, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2013
• Salicylic acid can be too harsh for dry skin, as can parabens, sodium laurel sulfate, ammonium lauryl sulfate, and some types of alcohol.
  — Rachel Nussbaum, Health.com, 17 Jan. 2022
• The middle of the cylinder is filled with a powdered mixture of ammonium perchlorate and ammonium nitrate, the oxidants.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• Those birds are genetically selecting to eat soy and corn, not to mention things like herbicides and ammonium.
  — Simon Mainwaring, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• The retardant, dropped from above on wildfires to prevent them from spreading, contains ammonium nitrate and has been linked to massive fish deaths in polluted waterways.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2007
• The staff disinfected rooms daily with an ammonium cleaning solution, and after a patient wasdischarged, the room was cleaned with bleach.
  — Tracy Staedter, Fox News, 30 May 2017
• The nitrogen of ammonium is converted to other more complex compounds that are beneficial to humans, like amino acids – the building blocks of protein.
  — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2016
• During a weeklong search, sailors discovered bags of ammonium perchlorate hidden inside of what initially appeared to be a shipment of 100 tons of urea.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 15 Nov. 2022
• Nitrifying microbes in the soil can then convert the ammonium into nitrate.
  — Jennifer Debruyn, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2023
• The inflaters developed by Takata use a compound known as ammonium nitrate that is supposed to fill airbags in a powerful but controlled explosion.
  — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• The main culprits are sodium-lauryl sulfate and ammonium laureth sulfate.
  — Andrea Jordan, Good Housekeeping, 17 June 2022
• The safety agency is also making sure older cars are fixed first, since the chemical Takata used in the air bags, ammonium nitrate, degrades over time, especially in hot, humid climates.
  — chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2017
• The types of clouds on Jupiter are highly dependent on the chemical that forms them, with the three main cloud layers coming from ammonia (the top layer), ammonium hydrosulfide (a stinky middle layer), and water (a bottom layer).
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2022

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024