ammonium hydroxide

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   a water solution of ammonia

   Synonymsammonia waterammonia

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Questions about ammonium hydroxide

What does ammonium hydroxide mean?

ammonium hydroxide means "a water solution of ammonia".

What is another word for ammonium hydroxide?

Close synonyms include ammonia water, ammonia. 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 hydroxide a common word?

ammonium hydroxide 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.