Ammonia - Liquid ammonia as a solvent - Solubility of salts

Liquid ammonia is the best-known and most widely studied nonaqueous ionising solvent. Its most conspicuous property is its ability to dissolve alkali metals to form highly coloured, electrically conductive solutions containing solvated electrons. Apart from these remarkable solutions, much of the chemistry in liquid ammonia can be classified by analogy with related reactions in aqueous solutions. Comparison of the physical properties of NH3 with those of water shows NH3 has the lower melting point, boiling point, density, viscosity, dielectric constant and electrical conductivity; this is due at least in part to the weaker hydrogen bonding in NH3 and because such bonding cannot form cross-linked networks, since each NH3 molecule has only one lone pair of electrons compared with two for each H2O molecule. The ionic self-dissociation constant of liquid NH3 at −50& °C is about 10−33 mol2·l−2.

Reference 1: Solubility (g of salt per 100 g liquid NH3).

Reference 2: Ammonium acetate, Ammonium nitrate, Lithium nitrate, Sodium nitrate, Potassium nitrate, Sodium fluoride, Sodium chloride, Sodium bromide, Sodium iodide and Sodium thiocyanate.

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