Word: ammonias
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...versatile, never idle, he learned all that his contemporaries knew about electricity and wrote a history of that mysterious force. By hit-or-miss methods he obtained in his retorts "marine acid air" (hydrochloric acid gas), "vitriolic acid air" (sulphur dioxide), "fluor acid air" (silicon fluoride), "alkaline air" (gaseous ammonia). One day, he tried passing electric sparks through his "alkaline air" and found that it decomposed into nitro gen and hydrogen. Then, "having a notion" that ammonia and hydrochloric acid gas, mixed, might produce a "neutral air," he obtained some of the first pure crystals of sal ammoniac...
...Dear" had only fainted or collapsed after the jump, attendants might yet have saved his life by following certain veterinary procedures, by rubbing him vigorously with a brush, or a "handful of straw or twigs, or coarse towels, or even some coarse-woven wearing apparel. If aromatic spirits of ammonia were handy, they should have mixed one or two tablespoonfuls in four to six ounces of water and let the cloudy mixture trickle over the horse's tongue every 20 minutes. But this is a heroic measure of last recourse...
...Forbes '02, Associate Professor of Chemistry, for supplies used in a research connected with the oxidation potentials in liquid ammonia...
...certain fire, a fireman is suffocated from smoke. His pulse was beating and he was breathing. Dr. Arrowsmith gave him a hypodermic of strychnine and held ammonia to his nose...
...mixture of oxygen and carbonic acid might have been called for. At any rate, that is what should be found on ambulances today. In all probability this fireman did not need even that, since he does not seem to have been much knocked out. The use of ammonia might have been justified, particularly after the man was moved well away from the smoke, but even it is doubtful...