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Ammonia can be found in the water when either animal waste or a decaying animals nitrogen is converted by bacteria in a process call ammonification.

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What is the solvent of ammonia water?

Water is the solvent. Ammonia is the solute.


Can you collect ammonia over water?

Not very efficiently, because ammonia dissolves so easily in water due to compatible intermolecular attractions between ammonia and water.


What freezes faster water or ammonia?

Water freeze before ammonia. Ammonia need high pressure to freeze.


Why is ammonia gas not collected over water?

Because ammonia is quite soluble in water, so that not all of the gas produced could be collected over water.


What is house ammonia?

Houshold ammonia is a solution of ammonia (3%) dissolved in water.


Which is more soluble in water ammonia or nitrogen?

Ammonia


What is mean by Liquid ammonia?

Ammonia gas is highly soluble in water. one ml. of water may absorbed hundreds mls. of ammonia, the concentrated aqueous solution of ammonia is known as liquid ammonia.


What is the solute and solvent in ammonia water?

Ammonia would be the solute and water would be the solvent.


Is water aqueous or liquid?

"Th confusuing thing is . . . ." the previous answer. In chem, H2O is a liquid.


Is Ammonia heterogeneous or homogeneous mixtures?

Ammonia is a compound, not a mixture. Household ammonia is a homogeneous mixture of ammonia and water.


What is the difference between ammonia and anhydrous ammonia and ammonium hydroxide?

Anhydrous ammonia is really just ammonia in fact. "Anhydrous" means without water, and anhydrous ammonia is just pure ammonia without water.It is to distinguish it from ammonia in water solutions because when added to water ammonia forms ammonium hydroxide:NH3 + H2O ---> NH4+ + OH-Ammonium hydroxide is frequently referred to as ammonia because you make it by adding ammonia to water, but it isn't really ammonia. It is much more commonly though because it is easier to handle (ammonia is a gas).See the Web Links for more information about ammonia.


Why does ammonia have a higher proton affinity than water?

bond in ammonia is less polar than that of water so it is harder to remove proton from ammonia than water.