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'Paleolithic' diets are not without risks, according to study

High-protein diets, known as paleolithic diets, are popular. Using mouse models, scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have studied their impact. While effective in regulating weight and stabilizing diabetes, these ...

Ammonium

The ammonium (more obscurely: aminium) cation is a positively charged polyatomic cation with the chemical formula NH+ 4. It is formed by the protonation of ammonia (NH3). Ammonium is also a general name for positively charged or protonated substituted amines and quaternary ammonium cations (N+R4), where one or more hydrogen atoms are replaced by organic radical groups (indicated by R).

In the substitutive nomenclature NH4+ is denoted by the name azanium instead of ammonium.

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