AMMONIUM ION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ammonium ion mean? 

• AMMONIUM ION (noun)
  The noun AMMONIUM ION has 1 sense:

1. the ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion

  Familiarity information: AMMONIUM ION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMMONIUM ION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

ammonium; ammonium ion

Hypernyms ("ammonium ion" is a kind of...):

ammonia (a pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3))

 Context examples 

The ammonium ion is used to make carbamoyl phosphate, and ultimately urea through the urea cycle.

(Feeding Amino Groups into the Urea Cycle, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The amino group from glutamate is released by glutamate dehydrogenase to create an ammonium ion.

(Feeding Amino Groups into the Urea Cycle, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)