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30501-M

Sigma-Aldrich

Ammonium hydroxide solution

puriss. p.a., reag. ISO, reag. Ph. Eur., ≥25% NH3 basis

Synonym(s):

Ammonia aqueous, Ammonia water

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About This Item

Linear Formula:
NH4OH
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
35.05
Beilstein:
3587154
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352106
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.21

Agency

USP/NF
reag. ISO
reag. Ph. Eur.

Quality Level

grade

puriss. p.a.

form

liquid

expl. lim.

27 %

concentration

≥25% NH3

impurities

readily oxidisable substances, complies
≤0.00005% pyridine
≤0.0005% KMnO4 red. matter (as O)
≤1 ppm heavy metals (as Pb)

evapn. residue

≤0.0018%

density

0.892-0.910 g/mL at 20 °C
0.9 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

anion traces

carbonate (CO32-): ≤10 ppm
chloride (Cl-): ≤0.5 ppm
phosphate (PO43-): ≤0.5 ppm
silicate (as SiO2): ≤10 ppm
sulfate (SO42-): ≤2 ppm
sulfide (S2-): ≤0.2 ppm

cation traces

Ag: ≤0.02 ppm
Al: ≤0.5 ppm
Au: ≤0.1 ppm
Ba: ≤0.05 ppm
Bi: ≤0.1 ppm
Ca: ≤1 ppm
Cd: ≤0.05 ppm
Co: ≤0.05 ppm
Cr: ≤0.05 ppm
Cu: ≤0.1 ppm
Fe: ≤0.1 ppm
Ga: ≤0.02 ppm
In: ≤0.02 ppm
K: ≤0.5 ppm
Li: ≤0.02 ppm
Mg: ≤0.1 ppm
Mn: ≤0.05 ppm
Mo: ≤0.05 ppm
Na: ≤1 ppm
Ni: ≤0.05 ppm
Pb: ≤0.05 ppm
Pt: ≤0.1 ppm
Sn: ≤0.1 ppm
Sr: ≤0.2 ppm
Ti: ≤0.1 ppm
Tl: ≤0.05 ppm
Zn: ≤0.1 ppm

SMILES string

[NH4+].[OH-]

suitability

complies for appearance of solution

storage temp.

2-8°C

InChI

1S/H3N.H2O/h1H3;1H2

InChI key

VHUUQVKOLVNVRT-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Application


  • Ammonium Hydroxide in Material Adsorption: Ammonium hydroxide is used to enhance the adsorption capacity of alginate-based magnetic nanocomposite beads for removing heavy metal ions from water, showcasing its effectiveness in water purification technologies (Russo et al., 2024).

  • Capillary Electrophoresis for Nanoplastics: Ammonium hydroxide is utilized in developing methodologies for the separation and detection of nanoplastic particles using capillary electrophoresis, crucial for environmental monitoring and safety assessments (Adelantado et al., 2024).

Packaging

In PE-bottles; also available PE-bottles black (Material no. ending with PEBL; Glass-bottles (Material no. ending with *-GL), PE canister (Material no. ending with *-H)

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Statements

Hazard Classifications

Aquatic Acute 1 - Aquatic Chronic 2 - Eye Dam. 1 - Skin Corr. 1B - STOT SE 3

Target Organs

Respiratory system

Storage Class Code

8A - Combustible, corrosive hazardous materials

WGK

WGK 2

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable


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Claudia M Gómez-Gutiérrez et al.
Scanning, 37(6), 389-392 (2015-05-27)
In this work, the influence of substrate on the morphology of ZnS thin films by chemical bath deposition is studied. The materials used were zinc acetate, tri-sodium citrate, thiourea, and ammonium hydroxide/ammonium chloride solution. The growth of ZnS thin films
Seyedeh Parinaz Akhlaghi et al.
Carbohydrate research, 409, 48-55 (2015-05-02)
A simple protocol was used to prepare amine functionalized cellulose nanocrystals (CNC-NH2). In the first step, epichlorohydrin (EPH) was reacted with ammonium hydroxide to produce 2-hydroxy-3-chloro propylamine (HCPA). In the next step, HCPA was grafted to CNC using the etherification

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