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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A liquid containing ammonia and ammonium carbonate and sulphid, besides other products, obtained from coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas.
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When it is subjected to dry distillation, as is done in the gas-works, the nitrogen which it contains is chiefly converted into ammonia, and, in the process of purification of the gas, is removed in the "gas-liquor," [213] which contains about one per cent of ammonia.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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