Question

Balanced equation of potassium chloride and ammonium nitrate; it’s types, net and observation

Answer 1

Potassium chloride reacts with ammonium nitrate to give ammonium chloride and potassium nitrate.

This is a type of double displacement reaction. The balanced chemical equation can be represented as,

$KCl(aq)+NH_{4}NO_{3}(aq)-->NH_{4}Cl(aq)+KNO_{3}(aq)$

Total ionic equation for this reaction will be,

$K^{+}(aq)+Cl^{-}(aq)+NH_{4}^{+}(aq)+NO_{3}^{-}(aq)--> K^{+}(aq)+NO_{3}^{-}(aq)+NH_{4}^{+}(aq)+Cl^{-}(aq)$

There is no apparent reaction as this reaction is not accompanied by the formation of a gas or a solid precipitate. We cannot observe any visual reaction as there is not net reaction taking place. All the ions remain as spectator ions.