ammonium chloride

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   a white salt used in dry cells

   Synonymssal ammoniac

   Broadersalt

Questions about ammonium chloride

What does ammonium chloride mean?

ammonium chloride means "a white salt used in dry cells".

What is another word for ammonium chloride?

Close synonyms include sal ammoniac. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ammonium chloride a common word?

ammonium chloride 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.