Ammonium Chloride Definition

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A white crystalline compound, NH4Cl, produced by the reaction of ammonia with hydrochloric acid: it is used in medicine to correct alkalosis, and also in dry cells, fertilizers, dyes, etc.; sal ammoniac.
Webster's New World
A slightly hygroscopic, white crystalline compound, NH4 Cl, used in dry cells, as a soldering flux, and as an expectorant.
American Heritage Medicine

(inorganic chemistry) A water-soluble salt of ammonia and hydrochloric acid, having the formula NH4Cl.

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  • The hexammine salts are formed by the oxidizing action of air on dilute ammoniacal solutions of cobaltous salts, especially in presence of a large excess of ammonium chloride.

  • Boron nitride BN is formed when boron is burned either in air or in nitrogen, but can be obtained more readily by heating to redness in a platinum crucible a mixture of one part of anhydrous borax with two parts of dry ammonium chloride.

  • These are washed with ammonium chloride until the filtrate is colourless, ignited, fused with caustic potash and nitre, the melt dissolved in water and nitric acid added to the solution until the colour of potassium ruthenate disappears.

  • The solution is filtered off, boiled till free of sulphuretted hydrogen, and ammonium chloride and ammonia added.

  • Treatment with casutic soda dissolves out aluminium hydroxide, which is reprecipitated by the addition of ammonium chloride.

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