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When dried, the substance looks like table salt and was initially called the salt of hartshorn — named for the horns of male deer from which it was commonly derived in the 17th century.—Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 7 Aug. 2025
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Etymology
from the earlier use of hart's horns as the chief source of ammonia
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