What is 28% ammonium hydroxide?

Ammonium hydroxide, 28% NH3, Thermo Scientific™ Ammonium hydroxide is widely utilized as a leavening agent or acidity regulator in food production. It serves as a precursor to some alkyl amines and is also used in the tobacco industry for flavor enhancement and as a processing aid.

How do you make a 28 ammonium hydroxide solution?

28 wt% (as NH3) can be obtained by either adding water to a 30 wt% (as NH3) sol., or by mixing both 25wt% and 30wt% ammonia solutions. We can retrieve densities of ammonia (aq. sol.)

What is ammonium hydroxide commonly used for?

Ammonium hydroxide is used as a cleaning agent and sanitizer in many household and industrial cleaners. Ammonium hydroxide is also used in the manufacture of products such as fertilizer, plastic, rayon and rubber.

What does ammonium hydroxide do to skin?

Ammonium hydroxide causes skin irritation; contact can lead to severe irritation and burns. Ingestion can cause vomiting, nausea, gastric irritation and, in severe cases, perforation, central nervous system depression, shock, convulsions and pulmonary edema.

Is ammonium hydroxide hazardous?

contact can severely irritate and burn the skin and eyes leading to eye damage. ► Exposure can irritate the eyes, nose and throat. ► Inhaling Ammonium Hydroxide can irritate the lungs. Higher exposures may cause a build-up of fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema), a medical emergency.

How much ammonia is in ammonium hydroxide?

Ammonium hydroxide appears as a colorless aqueous solution. Concentration of ammonia ranges up to approximately 30%.

Is ammonia solution and ammonium hydroxide the same thing?

ammonium hydroxide, also called ammonia solution, ammonia water, aqueous ammonia, or aqua ammonia, solution of ammonia gas in water, a common commercial form of ammonia. It is a colourless liquid with a strong characteristic odour.

Is ammonium hydroxide safe?

What is the common name for ammonium hydroxide?

ammonia solution
ammonium hydroxide, also called ammonia solution, ammonia water, aqueous ammonia, or aqua ammonia, solution of ammonia gas in water, a common commercial form of ammonia.

Is ammonium hydroxide poisonous to humans?

Ammonium hydroxide is poisonous.