Ammonium Chloride History

The ancient acknowledgment of ammonium chloride was in 554 A.D. in China. At that time, ammonium chloride came from two sources: the vents of underground atramentous fires in Central Asia, specifically, in the Tian Shan mountains (which extend from Xinjiang arena of northwestern China through Kyrgyzstan) as able-bodied as in the Alay (or Alai) mountains of southwestern Kyrgyzstan, and the fumaroles of the abundance Mount Taftan in southeastern Iran. (Indeed, the chat for ammonium chloride in several Asian languages derives from the Iranian byword anosh adur (immortal fire), a advertence to the underground fires.) Ammonium chloride was again transported forth the Silk Road eastwards to China and westwards to the Muslim acreage and Europe.

Around 800 A.D. the Arabs of Egypt apparent ammonium chloride in the charcoal that resulted from afire biscuit dung, and this antecedent became an another to the sources in Central Asia.