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ammonium bicarbonate

noun

Definition of ammonium bicarbonate

: a white crystalline salt NH4HCO3 made by passing carbon dioxide through an aqueous ammonia solution and used chiefly in baking powders and in fire-extinguishing compositions

— called also ammonium acid carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate

First Known Use of ammonium bicarbonate

1869, in the meaning defined above

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