Question

Ammonium chloride is basic in nature.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Ammonium chloride is a neutral salt but its solution is slightly acidic because ammonium ion ($N{H}_4^{+}$) is a strong conjugate acid of a weak base ammonia and chloride ion ($C{l}^{-}$) is weak conjugate base of strong acid $HCl$ .Hence, in the solution the conjugate acid $N{H}_4^{+}$ is stronger than the weak base ammonia and the solution is slightly acidic.