ammonium carbonate

1. 1.

   a carbonate of ammonium; used in the manufacture of smelling salts and baking powder and ammonium compounds

   Broadercarbonate

Questions about ammonium carbonate

What does ammonium carbonate mean?

ammonium carbonate means "a carbonate of ammonium; used in the manufacture of smelling salts and baking powder and ammonium compounds".

Is ammonium carbonate a common word?

ammonium carbonate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.