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Solubility of ammonia salts in solvents?

ot1138 - 25-6-2015 at 10:56

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know the solubility of Ammonium Carbonate, Ammonium Acetate, and Potassium Carbonate in methanol and ethanol?

I have been looking everywhere for days and cannot find a reliable source of this information.

Thank you!!

zed - 25-6-2015 at 15:29

Not in the CRC Handbook?

blogfast25 - 25-6-2015 at 15:34

Quote: Originally posted by ot1138  
Hi everyone,

Does anyone know the solubility of Ammonium Carbonate, Ammonium Acetate, and Potassium Carbonate in methanol and ethanol?

I have been looking everywhere for days and cannot find a reliable source of this information.

Thank you!!


Ammonium acetate is soluble in both, acc. Wiki. Potassium carbonate is not soluble in either.

zed - 25-6-2015 at 15:38

Ammonium BiCarbonate is insoluble in methanol. At least according to Wiki.

ot1138 - 25-6-2015 at 19:18

I found the wikipedia entries already and I've found more than a few that are inaccurate, so I don't trust them.

I couldn't find these values in CRC, but I did have a bit of luck on some of the others, though I can't say for certain these are correct because I haven't been able to cross-reference them.

Ammonium acetate - ethanol: soluble; methanol: 6.2g/100mL
Potassium carbonate - ethanol: insoluble; methanol: 4.7g/100mL
Ammonium carbonate - ethanol: 2.1g/100mL

That leaves ammonium carbonate and methanol...

ot1138 - 25-6-2015 at 19:20

Quote: Originally posted by zed  
Ammonium BiCarbonate is insoluble in methanol. At least according to Wiki.


I have reason to suspect ammonium carbonate is soluble in methanol and if so, the solubility for ammonium bicarbonate doesn't help me.

chemister2015 - 8-7-2015 at 20:14

I have the same dates about solubility:
ammonium carbonate - ethanol 2.68 g/100 g (http://chemister.ru/Database/properties-en.php?dbid=1&id...)
potassium carbonate - ethanol abs. - insoluble, methanol 6 g/100 g at 25 C (http://chemister.ru/Database/properties-en.php?dbid=1&id...)

[Edited on 9-7-2015 by chemister2015]