please help I don’t understand the difference between ammonium and ammonium ion. I possibly did 9.a) correct but part b is a bit
tricky
1 answer:
You may find the electron diagram of ammonia and the ammonium ion in the attached picture.
Explanation:
Ammonia NH₃ have covalent bonds with the hydrogen atoms in which for each bond one electron comes from nitrogen atom (blue dot) and the other from the hydrogen atom (red dot). You may see that the nitrogen remains with the lone pair of electrons that does not participate in bonding.
Ammonia NH₃ have a basic character and is able to accept a proton H⁺ from an acid to form the ammonium ion NH₄⁺. The fourth bond formed its called a coordinative-covalent bond that is created only with the nitrogen lone pair of electrons (blue dots).
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