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Definition of Gum ammoniac

Gum ammoniac
Ammoniac Am*mo"ni*ac(or Gum ammoniac Gum` am*mo"ni*ac, n. [L. Ammoniacum, Gr. ? a resinous gum, said to distill from a tree near the temple of Jupiter Ammon; cf. F. ammoniac. See Ammonite.] (Med.) The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

Meaning of Gum ammoniac from wikipedia

- Ammonia**** or the gum ammoniac is a gum-resin exuded from the several perennial herbs in the genus Ferula of the umbel family (Apiaceae). There are three...
- The resin of the subspecies F. communis subsp. brevifolia is called gum ammoniac of Morocco. The phenolic compound ferulic acid is named for the giant...
- Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and ****stan. It is the source of Persian gum ammoniac. "Ferula ammonia**** (D.Don) Spalik, M.Panahi, Piwczyński & Puchałka"...
- yellow/C****el yellowoxychloride of lead, formed by heating litharge with sal ammoniac. Mercurius praecipitatus – red mercuric oxide. Mosaic gold – stannic sulfide...
- from the drying of the root latex, has properties similar to those of Gum Ammoniac (the oleoresin derived from Dorema ammonia****). Peucedanum officinale...
- The diachylon gummatum is the great diachylon with the addition of gum ammoniac, galbanum, and sagapenum, dissolved with wine, and boiled to a consistency...
- other products, such as ice creams, syrups, chewing gum, snus and alcoholic beverages. Sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride) has a history of being used as...
- 1037) made of twelve ingredients. The ingredients were turpentine, wax, gum ammoniac, birthwort roots, olibanum, bdellium, myrrh and galbanum, opoponax, verdigris...
- βάσις ܒܣܣ noun "base, basis" ܩܘܒܘܣ noun "cube' ἀμμωνιακόν ܐܡܘܢܝܩܘܢ noun "gum ammoniac" ἀνδροδάμας ܐܢܕܪܘܕܘܡܘܣ noun "****nical pyrites" ἄσβεστος ܐܣܒܣܛܘܢ noun...
- shipments survive so the extent of his involvement is unknown.: 47–9  Sal ammoniac (nushādir) had a variety of uses in medieval chemistry, metallurgy, and...