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Ammonia and Its Salts
Ammonia and Its Salts
PROPERTIES OF AMMONIA
USES OF AMMONIA
MANUFACTURE OF AMMONIA
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Cooling agent
coagulation
has a pungent
is alkaline is a colourless gas
smell
burns in oxygen
is less dense than is very soluble in
gas, O2 but not in
air water
the air
Ammonia is very soluble in water, but it ionises partially in water to form a weak alkali.
Ammonia being alkaline can undergo neutralisation with acids to form ammonium salts.
through
Haber Process.
Was invented in
1918 by a Noble
Prize winner, Fritz
Haber (1868-1934).
This reaction makes
ammonia out of
hydrogen and
nitrogen.
The nitrogen comes
from the air (78% N).
Figure above shows the manufacture of ammonia, NH3 through the Haber Process
Liquid Ammonia !
Key facts