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Ammonium hydroxide ionizes as follows: NH4OH NH4+ + OH-. If an excess of ammonium salt, such as NH4Cl (which ionizes to give NH4+ ions), is added to the equilibrium shown above, you could predict that the result will be to:

Answer 1

Some of the NH₄+ will combine with the OH- and shift the equilibrium backwards and from NH₄OH to balance the change produced by addition of NH₄+ ions.