Which of the following bonds exist in crystalline ammonium chloride (NH₄Cl)?

hightunes

4 years ago

2N +3H2 (/to/) 2NH3 CORDINATE BOND

NH3 + H+ (/to/) NH4. COVALENT BOND

NH4 + CL- (/to/) NH4CL. IONIC BOND

Showrey

11 years ago

The answer is, both ionic and covalent.

There is no (or not much) covalent interaction between

ammonium ion and chloride ion in the solid state; the ions are

arranged in a so-called "cesium chloride" structure, which is

common for 1-to-1 ratios of large cations and smaller anions.

However, bonding between nitrogen and the four hydrogens

within the ammonium ion itself is covalent.

There is a somewhat less common way of representing

ammonium chloride, NH 3.HCl. This shows two things:

You can make ammonium chloride by reacting ammonia with

HCl.

Ammonium chloride is the hydrochloride salt of ammonia. This

convention is more often used with amine salts with a complex

structure, like morphine hydrochloride which is easier to "get"

than "morphinium chloride" or some such.

Kpcofgs

1 year ago

2N +3H2 (/to/) 2NH3 COVALENT BOND

NH3 + H+ (/to/) NH4. CORDINATE BOND

NH4 + CL- (/to/) NH4CL. IONIC BOND

JJOOSSHHUUAA

1 year ago

ammonium ion bond is coordinate bond
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so that means
Ionic covalent and coordinate bond is the correct answer