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Why is ammonia written as NH4 and not H4N?

Updated: 9/21/2023
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Bluebabies123

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10y ago

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The first thing is that your question is flawed. Ammonia is NH3, not NH4. NH4 is ammonium, which takes on an extra Hydrogen atom. That said, the Ammonium atom can certainly be written as H4N as well as the ore common NH4.

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