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Ammoniac

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Ammoniac is a sal ammoniac salt gathered from desert regions and kept among mineral cautery compounds; Pliny names it separately from common table salt.

Admitted autonomously from source pliny-nh (NH 31 (fixture paraphrase of ammoniac salt)).

Discovery method: OPEN_WORLD_SOURCE_EXTRACTION.

Extraction reason: Identity clause (“X is a/an …”) in source passage.

Identifying passage: Ammoniac is a sal ammoniac salt gathered from desert regions and kept among mineral cautery compounds; Pliny names it separately from common table salt.

Roman religion

  • Ammoniac appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats ammoniac among desert salt crusts of cautery, soldering, and mineral craft beyond shoe-blue pharmacy rows alone. A named ammoniac craft encyclopedia seat, not sal-ammoniac as the later chemistry spelling refused here for elements-only focus and not nitre or natron alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Ammoniac is used in Medicine.

    In Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, Ammoniac is named in the physic and receipt lemmas beside Medicine.

    from Arnold James Cooley · Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, 6th ed. (PD; Gutenberg #39733 / #41957)

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  • Ammoniac is historically related to Mercury.

    In Dunglison’s Medical Lexicon, plaster of ammoniac with mercury adds melted ammoniac after the mercury has been rubbed with oil and sulphur — ammoniac is melted into that mercury plaster.

    from Robley Dunglison · Medical Lexicon, 1874 (and earlier PD eds.)

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  • Ammoniac is used in Offerings.

    Ammoniac used in Offerings. Ammoniac is a sal ammoniac salt gathered from desert regions and kept among mineral cautery compounds; Pliny names it separately from common table salt. Gifts given to gods, dead, or powers: fire, food, blood, incense, words. The Atlas keeps their meeting local, without dissolving either into a single meaning.

    from SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE, 2026

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  • Ammoniac is used in Incense.

    Ammoniac used in Incense. Ammoniac is a sal ammoniac salt gathered from desert regions and kept among mineral cautery compounds; Pliny names it separately from common table salt. Aromatics burned as offering or perfume. The Atlas keeps their meeting local, without dissolving either into a single meaning.

    from SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE, 2026

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  • Quarter is used in Ammoniac.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, supplying a quarter of sal ammoniac to the preparation will dissolve gold — the quarter measure sets that ammoniac cut for the gold dissolve.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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sources

  • Natural History · Pliny the Elder

    Pliny, Naturalis Historia.

  • Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts · Arnold James Cooley

    Arnold James Cooley, Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts (6th ed.).

  • Medical Lexicon · Robley Dunglison

    Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon (Dictionary of Medical Science).

  • SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE

    SHOE.BLUE, Atlas instrument voice.

  • On Divers Arts · Theophilus Presbyter

    Theophilus, On Divers Arts (De diversis artibus / Schedula diversarum artium).