What is the conjugate acid of NH3?

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What is the conjugate acid of NH3?

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Answer 1 · 2015-11-28T17:01:57

The conjugate acid of ammonia is the ammonium ion, $N H_{4}^{+}$ $NH_4^+$ .

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The conjugate acid of any species, is the original species PLUS a proton, $H^{+}$ $H^+$ . Both mass and charge are conserved. So add a $H^{+}$ $H^+$ unit to $N H_{3}$ $NH_3$ , and I gets $N H_{4}^{+}$ $NH_4^+$ , ammonium ion. Are both mass and charge conserved here?

By the same procedure, if I remove $H^{+}$ $H^+$ from any species, I get the conjugate base. So the conjugate base of sulfuric acid, $H_{2} S O_{4}$ $H_2SO_4$ is $H S O_{4}^{-}$ $HSO_4^-$ , bisulfate anion. What is the conjugate base of bisulfate ion?

Can you tell me the conjugate base of $N H_{3}$ $NH_3$ ? This species does not exist in water, but it does exist in liquid ammonia.

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