Question

Balanced equation of potassium chloride and ammonium nitrate; it’s types, net and observation

Answer 1

Potassium chloride reacts with ammonium nitrate to give ammonium chloride and potassium nitrate.

This is a type of double displacement reaction. The balanced chemical equation can be represented as,

`KCl(aq)+NH_(4)NO_(3)(aq)-->NH_(4)Cl(aq)+KNO_(3)(aq)`

Total ionic equation for this reaction will be,

`K^(+)(aq)+Cl^(-)(aq)+NH_(4)^(+)(aq)+NO_(3)^(-)(aq)--> K^(+)(aq)+NO_(3)^(-)(aq)+NH_(4)^(+)(aq)+Cl^(-)(aq)`

There is no apparent reaction as this reaction is not accompanied by the formation of a gas or a solid precipitate. We cannot observe any visual reaction as there is not net reaction taking place. All the ions remain as spectator ions.