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A form resembling a crossed or looped stroke, denoting ammonium chloride.
Also known as: Sal ammoniac sign, Ammonium chloride, Salmiac
Ammonium chloride, one of the most useful substances in the early laboratory: it sublimes cleanly, which made it central to purification work and to the theory of what sublimation was doing.
Denotes sal ammoniac, ammonium chloride, a salt valued in the laboratory because it sublimes readily and could be used to carry other substances through purification.
Encoded at U+1F717 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR SAL-AMMONIAC.
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A short curved stroke crossed by a straight line near its upper end.
Sal ammoniac was the substance through which sublimation was most often demonstrated and understood.