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AMMONIUM CARBONATE

CAS NO.: 506-87-6
EC/LIST NO: 233-786-0

Ammonium carbonate is a salt with the chemical formula (NH4)2CO3.
Since it readily degrades to gaseous ammonia and carbon dioxide upon heating, it is used as a leavening agent and also as smelling salt.
Ammonium carbonate is also known as baker's ammonia and was a predecessor to the more modern leavening agents baking soda and baking powder.
Ammonium carbonate is a component of what was formerly known as sal volatile and salt of hartshorn,and produces a pungent smell when baked.

Ammonium carbonate appears as a colorless crystalline solid or a white powder with a strong odor of ammonia.
Noncombustible.
The primary hazard is the threat to the environment.
Immediate steps should be taken to limit spread to the environment.
Used to make other ammonium compounds, in pharmaceuticals, in food processing

A white powder that smells strongly of ammonia.
Ammonium carbonate is a double salt of Ammonium carbamate and Ammonium bicarbonate.
Because it was historically prepared by the destructive distillation of the antlers from harts (red deer), ammonium carbonate is commonly called hartshorn.
In air, it slowly decomposes to form ammonia and carbon dioxide.
Ammonium carbonate is used in smelling salts, baking powder, fire extinguishers, ammonium casein glue, ceramics, and textile dyeing.
Ammonium carbonate is also used as an aqueous neutralization/alkalization agent for paper (AIC Book and Paper catalog).
Ammonium carbonate is also used in fire extinguishers, ceramics, photographic developing, washing wool, mordanting textiles, and coloring metals.

Ammonium carbonate is used in baking powder Ammonium carbonate is the commercial salt, formerly known as sal volatile or salt of hartshorn.
Ammonium carbonate is used when crushed as a smelling salt.
Ammonium carbonate can be crushed when needed in order to revive someone who has fainted.
Ammonium carbonate is also known as "baker's ammonia" and was a forerunner to the more modern leavening agents baking soda and baking powder.

Baker's Ammonia (Ammonium Carbonate) is a leavening ingredient called for in many old fashioned recipes.
Ammonium carbonate is also called "hartshorn".
Ammonium carbonate is used to make extra-crisp cookies or crackers.
Unlike baking powder or soda, it does not leave an alkaline off-flavor in baked goods.
Ammonium carbonate is not used for leavening in cakes or other large-volume items as the ammonia gas will not evaporate entirely.

Ammonium Carbonate is a colorless or white, cystalline powder with astrong ammonia odor.
Ammonium carbonate is used in baking powders, mordant dyeing , and tanning , and as medication , areagent , ans smelling salts.

Ammonium Carbonate is produced by reacting anhydrous ammonia and carbon dioxide.
Ammonium carbonate is a white translucent mass (lump) that is typically supplied in 25 kg plastic sacks and 1000 kg big bags.
Ammonium Carbonate Lump is used as a convenient source of ammonia in a wide range of applications which include metal treatment, polymer manufacture and as a raising agent for both industrial and food applications.

We commonly refer to Ammonium Carbonate as Baker’s Ammonia.
Along with it, it is a chemical compound that comprises the ions of the ammonium and carbonate.
The chemical or the molecular formula for the Ammonium Carbonate is termed as (NH4)2CO3.
On the other hand, it is a crystalline solid that has no color or a white powder that has a strong odor of ammonia and has a very Sharp ammoniacal taste.
This article also deals in Ammonium Carbonate Formula.

Moreover, the ammonium carbonate is non-combustible and it is also soluble when you dissolve it in the water.
Importantly, when it reacts with the acids it develops ammonium salt and carbon dioxide at the same time.
When it reacts with bases it forms ammonia gas.
Ammonium carbonatet forms by the process of blending the carbon dioxide and aqueous ammonia together.
Moreover, one commonly uses it as a leavening agent and as a smelling salt.
Ammonium carbonate is so because of its property of degrading to the gaseous ammonia and the carbon dioxide when it is heated.

Ammonium carbonate is made by the combination of carbon dioxide and the aqueous ammonia.
However, about 80000 tons per year were produced as of 1997.
The ammonium carbonate can be produced by carbon dioxide.
This consists of, sending the carbon dioxide and the ammonia gas with the purity level of about 99-99.99 percent into 2 buffer gas vats with a pressure of 0.2 to 2MPa.

Opening the valve of the vats to release the flow of the gas by the Rota meter into a sealed PVC synthesis reaction bag and form the product.
Wherein, the speed of the flow is (0.6-2) X 106L/h, and (0.1-0.6) X 106L/h for carbon dioxide and the ammonia gas separately.

Ammonium carbonate is positive ammonium salt of carbonic acid normal salt, the formula is (NH4)2CO3.
Pure product is colorless or white cubic crystal or powder, it has strong smell of ammonia. Industrial product is complex salt of ammonium bicarbonate and ammonium carbamate, it is white, flaky or small block of solid product crushed form.
Ammonium carbonate is often with a molecular crystal water, it is hygroscopic, soluble in water, it can decompose in case of hot water.
Ammonium carbonate is insoluble in ethanol and carbon disulfide.
Ammonium carbonate can rapidly decompose into ammonia, carbon dioxide and water at 58℃.
Ammonium carbonate can be obtained by ammonia introduces into solution of sodium carbonate with half times, the solution crystallizes at 30°C.
Ammonium carbonate gradually loses ammonia to form ammonium bicarbonate in air.

Ammonium Carbonate, also known as baker’s ammonia or hartshorn, is a white, crystalline salt with the chemical formula (NH4)2CO3.
Commercial samples labeled ammonium carbonate no longer contain this compound, but a mixture that has similar ammonia content.
Since it readily degrades to gaseous ammonia and carbon dioxide upon heating, it is used as a leavening agent and also as a smelling salt.
Ammonium carbonate was a predecessor to the more modern leavening agents baking soda and baking powder.
Ammonium carbonate is also used in some smokeless tobacco products and as an active ingredient in cough syrup to relieve the symptoms of bronchitis.

This white powder is also referred to as ammonium bicarbonate, carbonate of ammonia, powdered baking ammonia, and other technical names.
Also 'hartshorn,' referring to male deer antlers, from which the powder was once made.

For use as a leavening agent in pastries and cookies, it is activated by heat.
Often preferred for puffing over baking powder. (Also slowly soluble in 4 parts of cold water.)

This ingredient is NOT intended for cakes, especially dense cakes like pound cake, because the gas can't release from the batter, leaving it trapped inside.

Shelf life is approximately 18 months, stored airtight at below 86°F.

Ammonium carbonate formula or ammonia salt formula is also known as Ammonium Carbonate formula.
Ammonium and carbonate ions are present in this chemical compound.
(NH4)2CO3 is the chemical and molecular formula of ammonium carbonate.
Ammonium carbonate is a crystalline solid which is white in colour and powdery in texture.
Ammonium carbonate has a strong odour of Ammonia and has a metallic ammoniacal taste.
Ammonium carbonate dissolves in water easily and is non-combustible.
Ammonium carbonate produces ammonia gas when it reacts with bases.
The blending of carbon dioxide and aqueous ammonia produces ammonium carbonate.

Ammonium carbonate may be used as a leavening agent in traditional recipes,particularly those from northern europe and scandinavia.
Ammonium carbonate also serves as a acidity regulator and has the e number e503.
Ammonium carbonate can be substituted with baking powder, but this may affect the texture of the finished product.

Ammonium carbonate is produced by combining carbon dioxide and aqueous ammonia. About 80,000 tons/year were produced as of 1997.

An orthorhombic monohydrate is known.
Ammonium carbonate crystallizes in an ammonia solution exposed in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere.

Decomposition
Ammonium carbonate slowly decomposes at standard temperature and pressure through two pathways.
Thus any initially pure sample of ammonium carbonate will soon become a mixture including various byproducts.

Ammonium carbonate can spontaneously decompose into ammonium bicarbonate and ammonia:

(NH4)2CO3 → NH4HCO3 + NH3

Which further decompose to carbon dioxide, water and another molecule of ammonia:

NH4HCO3 → H2O + CO2 + NH3

pH value : 9.4 (100 g/l, H₂O, 20 °C)
Vapor pressure : 69 hPa (20 °C)
Solubility : 320 g/l

LD 50 oral : LD50 Rat > 1800 - < 2150 mg/kg
LD 50 dermal : LD50 Rat > 2000 mg/kg

Assay (acidimetric, NH₃) : ≥ 30.0 %
Identity : passes test
Description : white crystals
Insoluble matter : ≤ 0.005 %
Chloride (Cl) : ≤ 0.0005 %
Sulfur compounds (as SO₄) : ≤ 0.002 %
Heavy metals (ACS) : ≤ 0.0005 %
Fe (Iron) : ≤ 0.0005 %
Non-volatile matter : ≤ 0.01 %

Formula: (NH4)2CO3
Molecular weight: 96.09
pH (20°C, 10%w/w solution): 9.0 (typical)
Free flowing, readily soluble in water.
White translucent masses of size range 2 – 40 mm (typical)
Assay: % w/w as NH3 32.0 ± 2.0
Iron: % as Fe < 0.005
Non-Volatile Matter: % as Mass < 0.05 (at 300°C)

Physical State :Solid
Solubility :Soluble in water.
Storage :Desiccate at room temperature
Melting Point :58° C

At room temperature for significant decomposition: (NH4) 2CO3 → 2NH3 + CO2 + H2O
At low temperature and a certain pressure, carbon dioxide and water with an excess of ammonia, ammonium carbonate can be obtained:
2NH3 + CO2 + H2O → (NH4) 2CO3
Ammonium sulfate and calcium carbonate suspension under heating to generate ammonium carbonate:
(NH4) 2SO4 + CaCO3 → (NH4) 2CO3 + CaSO4
Urea in aqueous solution will gradually react with water to form ammonium carbonate:
CO (NH2) 2 + 2H2O → (NH4) 2CO3

The chemical formula or molecular formula of Ammonium Carbonate is (NH4)2CO3.
Ammonium carbonate degrades to gaseous ammonia and carbon dioxide when heated at a higher temperature.
Ammonium carbonates application is mainly as a leavening salt and smelling salt.
Ammonium carbonate is also known as Baker’s salt.
Ammonium carbonate acts as a predecessor of modern leavening agents like baking soda and baking powder.

Ammonium carbonate ((NH4)2CO3, CAS Reg. No. 8000-73-5) is a mixture of ammonium bicarbonate (NH4HCO3) and ammonium carbamate (NH2COONH4).
Ammonium carbonate is prepared by the sublimation of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and calcium carbonate and occurs as a white powder or a hard, white or translucent mass.

Ammonium carbonate may be used as a leavening agent in traditional recipes, particularly those from northern Europe and Scandinavia (e.g. Speculoos, Tunnbröd or Lebkuchen).
Ammonium carbonate was the precursor to today's more commonly used baking powder.

Originally made from ground deer horn and called hartshorn, today it is called baker's ammonia.
Ammonium carbonate is prepared by the sublimation of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and calcium carbonate and occurs as a white powder or a hard, white or translucent mass.
Ammonium carbonate acts as a heat activated leavening agent and breaks down into carbon dioxide (leavening), ammonia (which needs to dissipate) and water.
Ammonium carbonate is sometimes combined with sodium bicarbonate to mimic as a double acting baking powder and to help mask any ammonia smell not baked out.

Ammonium carbonate also serves as an acidity regulator and has the E number E503.
Ammonium carbonate can be replaced with baking powder, but this may affect both the taste and texture of the finished product.
Ammonium carbonate should be used to create thin dry baked goods like crackers and cookies.
This allows the strong ammonia smell to bake out.
Ammonium carbonate should not be used to make moist baked items like cake since ammonia is hydrophilic and will leave a strong bitter taste.

Ammonium carbonates use as a leavening agent, with associated controversy, goes back centuries:

In the third kind of bread, a vesicular appearance is given to it by the addition to the dough of some ammoniacal salt, (usually the sub-carbonate,) which becomes wholly converted into a gaseous substance during the process of baking, causing the dough to swell out into little air vessels, which finally bursting, allow the gas to escape, and leave the bread exceedingly porous.
Mr. Accum, in his Treatise on Culinary Poisons, has stigmatized this process as "fraudulent," but, in our opinion, most unjustly.
The bakers would never adopt it but from necessity:
when good yeast cannot be procured, it forms an admirable and perfectly harmless substitute; costing the baker more, it diminishes his profit, while the consumer is benefited by the bread retaining the solid matter, which by the process of fermentation is dissipated in the form of alcohol and carbonic acid gas.[

Ammonium carbonate is the main component of smelling salts, although the commercial scale of their production is small.
Buckley's cough syrup from Canada today uses ammonium carbonate as an active ingredient intended to help relieve symptoms of bronchitis.
Ammonium carbonate is also used as an emetic.
Ammonium carbonate is also found in smokeless tobacco products, such as Skoal, and it is used in aqueous solution as a photographic lens cleaning agent, such as Eastman Kodak's "Kodak Lens Cleaner."

Ammonium carbonate is also used for luring of apple maggots in Washington State, to monitor the spread of the infestation and adjust the borders of the Apple Maggot Quarantine Area

Ammonium carbonate is a common reagent utilized as a porogen, oxidant, and leavening agent in some experiments.
Also seen as a buffer and found to be an ingredient in some cough syrups.
In certain studies, ammonium carbonate was applied as a complexing ag

Ammonium carbonate is the main component of the smelling salts.
Although, the commercial scale of their production process is smaller.
Buckley’s cough syrup that is from Canada today uses ammonium carbonate as an active ingredient that helps in providing relief to the symptoms of bronchitis.

Moreover, Ammonium carbonate is also useful as an emetic.
Ammonium carbonate is also present in smokeless tobacco generally chewing tobacco products like Skoal.

Ammonium carbonate is used as raw material for baking powder, various ammonium salts, buffer agent, auxiliaries, fertilizer and analytical reagent.
Edible ammonium carbonate is used as buffer, neutralizing agent, leavening agent, fermentation promoter (manufacture of wine).
Ammonium carbonate is used for fire fighting, detergents, and used in medicine, rubber, and other industrial fermentation.

Ammonium Carbonate is a dough strengthener, a leavening agent, a ph control agent, and a texturizer.
Ammonium carbonate is prepared by the sublima- tion of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and calcium carbonate, and occurs as a white powder or a hard, white translucent mass.

Ammonium carbonate is obtained by passing carbon dioxide into aqueous ammonia solution in a column or tower.
Ammonia, carbon dioxide and water vapor are distilled and the vapors condensed into a solid crystalline mass.
Ammonium carbonate also may be prepared by subliming a mixture of ammonium sulfate and calcium carbonate.

Ammonium carbonate is used in the washing and defatting of wools, the manufacture of rubber products, in fire extinguishers, and the separation of cacao constituents.
A high-throughput parallel liquid chromatography/ultraviolet/mass spectrometry (LC/UV/MS) technique for compound screening that incorporates ammonium carbonate has been published.
Ammonium carbonate can be used in the isolation of cell surface proteins from Candida albicans.
Ammonium carbonate also finds application in the comparative peptide analysis of equine, bovine, and canine cytochrome c by capillary electrophoresis/mass spectrometry.

Ammonium carbonate is widely utilized as a leavening agent in lebkuchen, cookies and flat biscuits.
Ammonium carbonate finds an important application as an emetic and an active ingredient in some cough syrups.
Ammonium carbonate is the main component in smelling salts and an active ingredient in some smokeless tobacco products, shampoos and dyes used in textile industries.
Ammonium carbonate is an important predecessor to the modern leavening agents baking soda and baking powder.
Ammonium carbonate serves as a foaming agent for the production of expanded material.
Ammonium carbonate is also used as a reagent for analytical purposes in the chemical industry.

Ammonium carbonate is the main component of smelling salts, although the commercial scale of their production is small.
Ammonium carbonate cough syrup from Canada today uses ammonium carbonate as an active ingredient intended to help relieve symptoms of bronchitis.
Ammonium carbonate is also used as an emetic.
Ammonium carbonate is also found in smokeless tobacco products, such as Skoal, and it is used in aqueous solution as a photographic lens cleaning agent, such as Eastman Kodak's "Kodak Lens Cleaner."

IUPAC NAME :

Ammonium carbonate

azane; carbonic acid

diammonium carbonate

SYNONYMS:

Ammonium carbonate
233-786-0
4253487
506-87-6
Acide carbonique, diammoniate
Ammonii carbonas
AmmoniumCarbonate(AS),Crystalammonia
BP1925000
Carbonic acid diammoniate
Carbonic acid, ammonium salt