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The word salmiak or
salmiakki comes from the ancient Latin name for ammonium chloride, sal
ammoniacus, which means "salt of Amun". The word "Amun"
refers to the shrine of Amun in the Oasis of Shiva, where the discovery of
ammonium chloride by the ancient Greeks.
The word ammonia also comes
from the same source. Ammonium chloride has been used for a long time as a
cough medicine, because it can accelerate phlegm. Finnish writer Jukka Annala
(fi) speculates that salmiakki comes from pharmacies that mix cough medicine
independently.
It is unclear where and when
ammonium chloride and candy root were first mixed to make candy, but since the
1930s salmiakki has been produced in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and
Holland as sweets.
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