Constituent
- Name
- Ammmonium sulfate (phase FE)
- Official name
- Ammonium sulfate (phase FE)
- Family
- ionic solid
- Class
- normal salt
- Compound type
- sulfate
- Relevance
- main - major
- Arrangement
- single phase
- Mass
- 0.338 $\pm$ 0.002 $g$
- Mass fraction
- 1.0
- Mole fraction
- 1.0
- Formula
- $(NH_4^+)_2 \cdot SO_4^{2-}$
- Chemical formula
- (NH4)2SO4
- Elemental formula
- (N+)2 H8 S O2 (O-)2
- Isotope mixture type
- terrestrial abundance
- Class
- normal salts (07)
- Type
- simple normal salts (07.01)
- Group
- sulfate (07.01.09)
- Phase name
- FE-Ammonium sulfate
- Phase type
- crystalline
- Crystal system
- orthorhombic
- Crystal class
- pyramidal
- Crystal class symbol
- mm2 (C2v)
- Crystal spacegroup
- Pna2(1)
- Comments
- ferroelectric phase
- Texture
- unknown
- Molar mass
- 132.14 $g/mol$
- Refringence type
- biaxial
- Refringence sign
- positive
- Birefringence
- 0.013
- Refraction index $n_{\alpha}$
- 1.521
- Refraction index $n_{\beta}$
- 1.523
- Refraction index $n_{\gamma}$
- 1.533
- Color
- colorless, white
- Diaphaneity
- transparent to translucent