Ammonium is an important ion in the fertilizer industry.
Keyword:
fertilizer
Keyword:
isomorphous
Miscellaneous comments:
ion: (NH4)+1
Miscellaneous comments:
Spartan'02, Wavefunction, Inc., Irvine, CA
Miscellaneous comments:
Structure was calculated using an ab initio method.
Layman's explanation:
The first widespread production of ammonium compounds was in the 1890s when ammonium sulfate was produced as a by-product from coke oven gas. Ammonium ion is produced as a product of the reaction of water and ammonia. Often, ammonium salts are isomorphous. They have a similar solubility to potassium and rubidium salts, whose ions are similar in size to ammonium. The ion is most stable in the presence of a large compound with a single negative charge.
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