What is ammonium chloride?

1 Answer
Apr 9, 2017

Ammonium chloride is the salt of ammonia and hydrochloric acid.

Explanation:

And this follows the stoichiometric equation:

NH3(aq)+HCl(aq)NH4Cl(aq)

Base+AcidSalt

In some literature you see ammonium chloride represented as H3NHCl, but the nitrogen in ammonia definitely becomes quaternized on salt formation, i.e. H4N+Cl.