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What does ammonium mean?

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Noun
  1. (inorganic chemistry) The univalent NH4+ cation, derived by the protonation of ammonia.
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A major national supplier announced it would stop selling ammonium nitrate as its easy accessibility questioned local safety.
Then ammonium acetate solution was added to replace the adsorbed sodium with ammonium ions.
Glycinebetaine is a quaternary ammonium compound that occurs naturally in a wide variety of plants, animals and microorganisms.
From natural gas, the factory produced ammonia, then nitric acid, urea and ammonium nitrate.
The addition of ammonium nitrate to dynamite further decreased the chances of accidental explosions.
Studies of multidrug-resistant proteins have demonstrated two types of residues involved in binding to quaternary ammonium compounds.

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