element

Sal ammoniac

Elements

Ammonium chloride of dyeing, soldering, and alchemy. Not common salt, and not nitre already published.

Also known as Sal ammoniacum

  • Sal ammoniac is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats hammoniac salt among mineral salts used in drugs and crafts. A Roman-era pharmacological use of sal ammoniac, not ordinary salt and not potash as plant ash alkali.

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

    used in · sourced · documented

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