英语词汇ammonia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ammonia
词源	ammonia. While camel riders worshipped at the Egyptian temple of the god Ammon, near Thebes, enterprising men and women extracted urine from the sand where their camels were hitched, later using it for bleaching or whitening clothes. The agent was called “sal ammoniac,” salt of Ammon, by the Ro- mans, and when the gas obtained from this salt (NH3) was first extracted in 1782 it was named ammonia.
随便看	better a hash at home than a roast with strangers better half better late than never better mousetrap better to give than to receive betty between a rock and a hard place between grass and hay between scylla and charybdis between the cup and the lip there-s many a slip between the devil and the deep blue sea between the lines between wind and water between you me and the bedpost between you me and the lamppost beulah land bevinism beware of and eschew pompous prolixity beware of dog beware of greeks bearing gifts beware the ides of march beyond the pale be your age bhopal bialy

英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。