Hey, guys! Judging by your comments to my previous video,
you were quite excited to see alkali metal ozonides for the first time,
so, in this video, I decided to show you one more ozonide, which is ammonium ozonide.
If we keep bubble ozone through liquid ammonia with a temperature a little bit lower than
minus thirty degrees Celsius, we’ll see no changes, because liquid ammonia reacts with ozone
either at higher temperatures,
thus forming mainly ammonium nitrate, or at lower temperatures, forming bright-red ammonium ozonide.
For example, if we cool ammonia down to more than minus one hundred degrees Celsius
and start to ozonate it, we’ll see it change its white color to red,
which means that ammonium ozonide is formed.
Ammonium ozonide is a very unstable compound and it is decomposed at temperatures above
minus one hundred twenty six degrees Celsius into ammonium nitrate, oxygen and water,
that enhances the decomposing process. You can see it right now due to a rapid discoloration of coloring
Here you can see a layer of ammonium ozonide on a solid ammonia surface
So, guys, I decided to condensate half a milliliter of almost-pure liquid ozone
and see what happens if I pour some liquid ammonia into it. Well, let’s find it out togethe
Since I have liquid ozone instead of ozonated oxygen here in the test-tube,
I didn’t touch its bottom to clean up the layer of ice,
because it may result in the explosive decomposing of liquid ozone.
In this reaction we got the most saturated red coloring possible,
which testifies the high concentration of formed ammonium ozonide
you're often ask me how I get ozone for my reactions.
Don’t worry, I will show you my ozone generator in the video about ozone and liquid ozone.
I hope I’ll make it soon.
By the way, when I was adding liquid ammonia in liquid ozone, I saw yellow smoke that turned white.
White smoke represents ammonium nitrate apparently, but what is yellow smoke?
I haven't found any articles on this reaction that mention the formation of nitrogen dioxide.
So, what do you think that could be? Let me know in the comments!
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