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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a class of inorganic coordination compounds of ammonia and a metallic salt.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See metal-ammonia compounds, under ammonia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun inorganic chemistry Any of a class of coordination compounds in which ammonia acts as a ligand.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[amm(onia) + –ine.]

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