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Where does “ammonium” come from?

Ammonium derives from English ammonia, which comes from Latin sal ammoniacus, a salt named after the Egyptian god Ammon, with the masculine singular ending traceable through Latin -us, Old Latin -os, Proto-Italic -os, and Proto-Indo-European -ós.

ammonium (English): The univalent NH cation, derived by the...

Definitions

  1. The univalent NH cation, derived by the...

Ancestry of “ammonium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1New Latinammōnium—

Words derived from “ammonium”

  • hydronium
  • alkylammonium
  • cetyltrimethylammonium
  • diammonium
  • cuprammonium
  • charmonium
  • onium
  • sulfonium
  • ammonal
  • methylammonium
  • triethylammonium
  • tetraalkylammonium
  • butylammonium
  • quarkonium
  • tetramethyluronium
  • tetradecyltrimethylammonium
  • dialkylammonium
  • cetrimonium
  • cuproammonium
  • bottonium
  • bottomonium
  • polyammonium
  • toponium
  • gluonium
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