English
Noun
smelling salt (plural smelling salts)
- (usually in the plural) ammonium carbonate, sometimes with added perfume, that is inhaled as a mild irritant to the mucous membranes, to help restore consciousness.
- Any material used in this way.
Translations
ammonium carbonate when used to restore consciousness
- Afrikaans: vlugsout
- Danish: lugtesalt n
- Dutch: vlugzout (nl) n
- Finnish: hajusuola
- French: sels (fr) m pl
- German: Riechsalz (de) n
- Hungarian: repülősó
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- Bokmål: luktsalt n
- Polish: sole trzeźwiące pl
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- Russian: ню́хательная соль f (njúxatelʹnaja solʹ)
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- Swedish: luktsalt n
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