ammonium salt
Americannoun
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They can react with H3O+ in a dilute acid to form an ammonium salt, and this property is used to extract them from the plant:
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
The laboratory preparation of ammonia is by the reaction of an ammonium salt with a strong base such as sodium hydroxide.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
The silver and mercury salts, when heated, yield the metal, with liberation of carbon dioxide and formation of free formic acid; and the ammonium salt, when distilled, gives some formamide, HCONH2.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
Vogel speaks highly of it as an addition to the positive toning bath, although he prefers the analogous ammonium salt in the following formula: Chloride of gold solution....
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 by Various
The author, in 1915, during a series of experiments on the relative germicidal action of hypochlorites, attempted to prepare the ammonium salt by double decomposition of bleach and ammonium oxalate solutions.
From Chlorination of Water by Race, Joseph
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