Nitrogen Triiodide

[5614]

sorry, i just had to print screen and save post #24 and #25, just couldnt resist it, no doubt you will see them again one day!

 

"A solution NH4OH would have to contain some NH3, eg.

NH4OH <--> NH3 + H2O"

but surely if you had a lump of NH4OH (a solid) the NH3 would have 'floated' away, and anyway just because there NH4OH was once NH3 does mean to say that once it has been properly reacted with H2O, surely all of the NH3 will have been 'used' up in the reaction?

[YT2095]

Think!,

 

NH4OH, the NH3 reacts, leaving what? H2O maybe? ))))

[5614]

oh yeah! duh! i just thought that maybe it would get in the way or just muck something up and just yeah, i'll stop there... i think thats enough chem for one night, im really not too with it!

 

still, we had some fun with the NH3 in a bottle idea!

[jdurg]

If you ask a common person "What's Ammonia?", they'll tell you that it's the smelly stuff in a bottle people use to clean their bathroom. If you ask a chemist the same thing, they'll tell you that it's a toxic, corrosive gas. It just happens that the "Ammonia" you buy in the grocery store and from chemical suppliers is a solution of ammonia gas in water, which goes on to form ammonium hydroxide. It's the same thing with HCl. HCl is actually a gas, but almost everyone is familiar with it as hydrochloric acid which is just HCl dissolved into water.

 

Reacting iodine with pure liquid ammonia won't work for a number of reasons. A major reason is that the water in an ammonia solution kind of holds things in place and allows the reaction to proceed. The iodine molecule needs to break apart in order to get the solitary iodine atoms, and then these atoms have to find an ammonium ion and replace the hydrogen on it. I believe that the very polar nature of water helps hold onto things while the reaction is taking place. Also, if you throw a tiny bit of KI into the mixture, it will help the iodine dissolve much easier and will create a bigger yeild.