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

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1New Latinammōnium

Words derived from “ammonium

Every word from New Latin ammōnium