Constituent Ammonium formate | SSHADE

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Constituent

Name: Ammonium formate
Official name: Ammonium formate

Family: ionic solid
Class: alkali salt
Compound type: organic salt

Constituent abundance in material

Relevance: main - major
Arrangement: single phase
Mass fraction: 1.0
Mole fraction: 1.0

Chemical composition

Formula: $NH_4^+ \cdot HCOO^-$
Chemical formula: NH4HCOO
Elemental formula: (N+) H5 C O (O-)
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
	$HCOO^-$	Formate ion	molecule	1	0.5	1	constituent anion	main

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number	Relevance
	$H_4 >\mid N^+$	1
	$R-C(=O)-O^-$	1	main

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number	Relevance
	$>\mid N^+ \cdot O^{-}-$	1
	$\geq N^+-H$	4	main
	$\eqslantgtr C-H$	1	main
	$>C=O$	1	main
	$\eqslantgtr C-O^-$	1	main

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

Phase type: crystalline

Crystallography

Crystal system: monoclinic

Physical properties

Molar mass: 63.056 $g/mol$
Density: 1.26 $g/cm^3$

Optical properties

Refringence type: biaxial
Diaphaneity: transparent