ammoniacal silver nitrate
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ammoniacal silver nitrate
(am′ōnī′əkəl)
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(ammoniated silver nitrate, Howe’s silver nitrate), an ammonium compound of silver nitrate, introduced by Percy R. Howe in 1917, that is more readily reduced to silver and silver proteinates than is the usual silver nitrate; formerly used to disclose carious tooth structure and immunize incipient carious lesions of the enamel. It is highly irritating to the pulp.
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