ammoniac

• We departed about noon, and passed through the plains of the Arab province of Howara[100], a very fine country; we pitched our tents at sunset, near a sanctuary, where we had all kinds of provisions sent to us, in great abundance: we continued our journey the following morning through the plains, and about the middle of the day we reached the foot of Atlas This country abounds in extensive plantations of olives, almonds and gum trees; some plants of the (_fashook_) gum ammoniac are here discovered. —  An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
• Plaisters of gum ammoniac, and the juice of the leaves of the opuntia_, or kermuse ensarrah_, i.e. prickly pear, were universally applied to the carbuncles, as well as to the buboes, which quickly brought them to suppuration: many of the people of property took copious draughts of coffee and Peruvian bark. —  An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
• Another solution for the same purpose is made with sal-ammoniac, cream of tartar, common salt and silver nitrate. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• Ammonia escapes, turns the red litmus paper blue, possesses the smell like hartshorn, and produces, with hydrochloric acid on the stopper of a bottle, dense white fumes of sal-ammoniac (ammonium chloride). —  The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association
• Hereupon I poured some caustic spirit of sal-ammoniac (strong ammonia) on this, in all appearance, black powder, and set it by for digestion. —  Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization

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