Relating to or involving ammonolysis, which is the chemical breaking apart of a compound using ammonia, or describing rocks and minerals affected by this process.
From ammono- + lytic (from Greek lytikos, meaning 'loosening' or 'dissolving'). The term combines the ammonia prefix with a suffix describing dissolution or breaking apart, emerging in 20th-century chemistry and geology.
Ammonolysis is like chemistry's solvent switch—instead of water breaking things apart, ammonia does the job, which creates completely different products. It's used industrially to create everything from dyes to pharmaceuticals!
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