smelling salt

English

Noun

smelling salt (plural smelling salts)

1. (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.
2. 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