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Amun
Egyptian · ancient
"a principal Egyptian deity, 'the hidden one'"
name of the ram-headed god whose desert oracle-temple gave salt deposits nearby his name
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Ammon
Ancient Greek · ancient
"the god, and by extension the salt from his temple's sands"
Greeks renamed the god Ammon and the salts mined near his Libyan temple after him
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ammonia
English · 1782
"a pungent alkaline gas, NH3"
coined in scientific Latin by chemist Torbern Bergman for the pungent gas from sal ammoniac
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