Ammonium sulphate is a fertiliser. How can you make it from an acid or alkali?
2006-10-02 21:47:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
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2006-10-02 21:57:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we have to react an acid with a alkali. Try to mix Ammonium hydroxide and sulphuric acid, you should theoretically get ammonium sulphate salt
2006-10-05 14:34:35 · answer #2 · answered by metallixan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just titrate ammonium hydroxide and sulphuric acid end point using an indicator once you know the correct volumes you can repeat with no indicator then leave the neutralised solution to evaporate and produce ammonium sulphate crystals.
Care, if solution is not neutral crystals are unlikely to form
2006-10-03 12:54:58 · answer #3 · answered by McFly's Star Girl <3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ammonium nitrate is a better fertiliser and you can buy it from garden centres rather than neutralise Nitric acid with Ammonium hydroxide.
BUT it is used by terrorists to make bombs - it was used in Amatol during WW2. They made it at Bury Port in Wales in VERY carefully separated underground chambers.
Along with nitrating glycerol to make dynamite.
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME as the warning has it!RoyS
2006-10-03 05:00:01 · answer #4 · answered by Roy S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about the fertiliser part but i know it is also called AlumSulphate and it is used for water treatment
2006-10-03 05:04:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-03 05:00:13 · answer #6 · answered by joe r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very carefully:
2NH4OH + H2SO4 ==> (NH4)2SO4 + 2H20
2006-10-03 04:55:52 · answer #7 · answered by Helmut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a less dangerous way would be
(NH4)2CO3 + H2SO4 (dilute) ----> (NH4)2SO4 + CO2 + H20
2006-10-03 06:56:24 · answer #8 · answered by andreicnx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋