Constituent
- Name
- Ammonium biphosphate (phase AFE)
- Official name
- Ammonium dihydrogen phosphate (phase AFE)
- Family
- ionic solid
- Class
- acid salt
- Compound type
- phosphate
- Relevance
- main - major
- Arrangement
- single phase
- Mass
- 0.397 $\pm$ 0.002 $g$
- Mass fraction
- 1.0
- Mole fraction
- 1.0
- Formula
- $(NH_4^+) \cdot H_2PO_4^-$
- Chemical formula
- (NH4)H2PO4
- Elemental formula
- (N+) H6 P O3 (O-)
- Isotope mixture type
- terrestrial abundance
- Class
- acid salts (05)
- Type
- simple acid salts (05.01)
- Phase name
- AFE-(NH4)H2PO4
- Phase type
- crystalline
- Crystal system
- orthorhombic
- Crystal class
- disphenoidal
- Crystal class symbol
- 222 (D2)
- Crystal spacegroup
- P2(1)2(1)2(1)
- Composition order
- ordered
- Comments
- H atoms are ordered
- Texture
- unknown
- Molar mass
- 115.025 $g/mol$
- Density
- calc.: 1.817 @100K $g/cm^3$
- Refringence type
- uniaxial
- Refringence sign
- negative
- Birefringence
- 0.0462
- Refraction index $n_{\alpha}$
- 1.5277 @532nm
- Refraction index $n_{\beta}$
- 1.4815 @532nm
- Color
- colorless, white
- Diaphaneity
- transparent to translucent
- Luster
- vitreous