Sharply pungent, gaseous ammonia note with a stinging, urinous character. Used historically in smelling salts rather than modern perfumery; on a blotter it flashes off aggressively with an eye-watering bite and little residual scent.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 58.
Colorless crystalline mass or white powder or translucent lumps.
Soluble in water (about 20°, in cold water), but decomposes in hot water. Ammonium carbamate is soluble in alcohol, the bicarbonate is not.
Strong odor of ammonia, somewhat alkaline taste.
Used in baking powder, and has been used as a smelling salt, now practically abandoned.
Produced by subliming a mixture of Calcium carbonate and Ammonium sulfate.