Complaint
China Manufacturer High Purity Ammonium Acetate 631-61-8
Ammonium acetate is a chemical compound with the formula CH3COONH4. It is a white solid, which can be derived from the reaction of and . It is available commercially, and depending on grade, can be rather inexpensive.
As the salt of a weak acid and a weak base, has a number of distinctive properties.
Ammonium acetate is at low pressures. Because of this it has been used to replace cell buffers with non-volatile salts, in preparing samples for mass spectrometry. Other volatile salts which have been used for this include .
Specification
Test | Specification | Result |
| Appearance | White crystals | White crystals |
| Assay,% | ≥97.0% | 98.1 |
| Sulfate% | ≤0.01 | 0.007 |
Fe % | ≤0.005 | 0.003 |
| Heavy metals | ≤0.005 | 0.004 |
Chemical Properties
| Melting point | 110-112 °C (dec.)(lit.) |
| Boiling point | 138.46°C (rough estimate) |
| density | 1.07 g/mL at 20 °C |
| Fp | 136 °C |
| storage temp. | 2-8°C |
| solubility | H2O: 1 M at 20 °C, clear, colorless |
| Water Solubility | 1480 g/L (20 ºC) |
| Merck | 14,495 |
