Can Ammonium Nitrate be used for making bombs or atomic bombs?
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Ammonium nitrate, a potential ingredient of terrorist bombs, can be made nonexplosive by addition of diammonium hydrogen phosphate, $\left(\mathrm{NH}_{4}\right)_{2} \mathrm{HPO}_{4}$ . Analysis of such a $\mathrm{NH}_{4} \mathrm{NO}_{3}-\left(\mathrm{NH}_{4}\right)_{2} \mathrm{HPO}_{4}$ mixture showed the mass percent of nitrogen to be 30.43$\%$ . What is the mass ratio of the two components in the mixture?
Ammonium nitrate, known for its use in agriculture, can be produced from ammonia by the following sequence of reactions: $$ \begin{aligned} \mathrm{NH}_{3}(\mathrm{~g})+\mathrm{O}_{2}(\mathrm{~g}) & \longrightarrow \mathrm{NO}(\mathrm{g})+\mathrm{H}_{2} \mathrm{O}(\mathrm{g}) \\ \mathrm{NO}(\mathrm{g})+\mathrm{O}_{2}(\mathrm{~g}) & \longrightarrow \mathrm{NO}_{2}(\mathrm{~g}) \\ \mathrm{NO}_{2}(\mathrm{~g})+\mathrm{H}_{2} \mathrm{O}(\ell) & \longrightarrow \mathrm{HNO}_{3}(\mathrm{aq})+\mathrm{NO}(\mathrm{g}) \\ \mathrm{HNO}_{3}(\mathrm{aq})+\mathrm{NH}_{3}(\mathrm{~g}) & \longrightarrow \mathrm{NH}_{4} \mathrm{NO}_{3}(\mathrm{aq}) \end{aligned} $$ (a) Balance each equation. (b) How many moles of nitrogen atoms are required for every mole of ammonium nitrate $\left(\mathrm{NH}_{4} \mathrm{NO}_{3}\right) ?$ (c) How much ammonia is needed to prepare 200.0 grams of ammonium nitrate $\left(\mathrm{NH}_{4} \mathrm{NO}_{3}\right)$ ?
Ammonium nitrate is used as a "high-nitrogen" fertilizer, despite the fact that it is quite explosive if not handled carefully. Ammonium nitrate can be synthesized by the reaction of ammonia gas and nitric acid. Write the unbalanced chemical equation for this process.
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