Explain Ammonia solution as an alkali.

      

Explain Ammonia solution as an alkali.

  

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Kavungya
- Solution of ammonia in water contains hydroxyl ions.

- Thus it has many properties of a typical alkali.
- Ammonia salts are similar to metallic salts.
- The group precipitates in the reaction as a whole without splitting in any way.
- It exhibits unit valency in its compounds and therefore called a basic radical.
Note:
- It cannot exist freely as ammonia gas which is a compound.
- Like other alkalis, ammonia solution precipitates insoluble metallic hydroxides by double decomposition when mixed with solution of salts of the metals.
Kavungya answered the question on April 30, 2019 at 10:19


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