Ammonia is a common ingredient found in many household cleaners. However, this ingredient can also be harmful to your pets.

Ammonium phosphate, another type of salt, is listed on Chips Ahoy cookies. But ammonium hydroxide, the chemical often used to sanitize the "pink slime," was harder to find.

The exact cause of the Beirut explosions remains to be determined definitively, but Lebanese officials have linked the blasts to a stockpile of ammonium nitrate kept in a warehouse in the city’s ...

Tuesday's blast has been linked to a stockpile of the chemical compound ammonium nitrate that had been stored in a hangar at Beirut’s port since it was confiscated from a ship in 2013.

Ammonium hydroxide also is included in the USDA’s list of Safe and Suitable Ingredients (FSIS Directive 7120.1, Revision 2; last revised 4/12/10).

McDonald's confirmed that it has eliminated the use of ammonium hydroxide — an ingredient in fertilizers, household cleaners and some roll-your-own explosives — in its hamburger meat. The ...

Under real conditions, the gaseous ammonia also compounds to ammonium hydroxide, for example when condensation develops on the inner bottom side of the panels, either through rain, fog or thawing.

A comparison of the five types of ammonium groups indicated that the hydrophobicity of the ion-exchange groups tended to decrease the hydroxide ion conductivity as well as the water uptake.

DON'T ALWAYS COUNT ON LABELS Compounds such as ammonium hydroxide, ammonium phosphate and ammonium chloride are considered safe in small amounts.