A rough & ready method involves memorising three numbers â 3, 5 and 8 â and the fact that 1 km in miles is approximately equal to the first of these numbers divided by the second, or alternatively the second divided by the third. That is: 1 km â 3/5 or 5/8 miles.
Ammonium chloride solutions with ammonia are used as buffer solutions. In paleontology, ammonium chloride vapor is deposited on fossils, where the substance forms a brilliant white, easily removed and fairly harmless and inert layer of tiny crystals.
One of the most characteristic properties of ammonia is its basicity. Ammonia is considered to be a weak base. It combines with acids to form salts; thus with hydrochloric acid it forms ammonium chloride (sal ammoniac); with nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, etc. Perfectly dry ammonia will not combine with perfectly dry hydrogen chloride; moisture is necessary to bring about the reaction.