Constituent Ammonium nitrate-IV | SSHADE

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Constituent

Name: Ammonium nitrate-IV
Official name: Ammonium nitrate (phase IV)

Family: ionic solid
Class: normal salt
Compound type: nitrate

Constituent abundance in material

Relevance: main - major
Arrangement: single phase
Mass: 0.382 $\pm$ 0.002 $g$
Mass fraction: 1.0
Mole fraction: 1.0

Chemical composition

Formula: $NH_4^+ \cdot NO_3^-$
Chemical formula: (NH4)NO3
Elemental formula: (N+)2 H4 O (O-)2
Isotope mixture type: terrestrial abundance

	Formula	Name	Family	Number min-max	Mole fraction	Isotope mole fraction	State	Relevance
	$NH_4^+$	Ammonium ion	molecule	1	0.5	1	constituent cation	main
	$(NO_3)^-$	Nitrate anion	chemical function	1	0.5	1	constituent anion	main

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number
	$H_4 >\mid N^+$	1
	$(NO_3)^-$	1

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number	Relevance
	$>\mid N^+ \cdot O^{-}-$	1
	$\geq N^+-H$	4	main
	$\dddot - \dddot - N^+ \dddot - O^{-2/3}$	3

Class: normal salts (07)
Type: simple normal salts (07.01)

Phase name: Ammonium nitrate-IV [or IV-(NH4)NO3]
Phase type: crystalline

Crystallography

Crystal system: orthorhombic
Crystal class: dipyramidal
Crystal class symbol: mmm (D2h)
Crystal spacegroup: Pmmm

Texture: monocrystalline

Physical properties

Molar mass: 80.043 $g/mol$
Density: 1.725 $g/cm^3$

Optical properties

Refringence type: biaxial
Refraction index $n_{\alpha}$: 1.611 at 587.6 nm
Color: colorless, white, gray, brown
Diaphaneity: transparent to translucent