Week 5 Chemistry

2

Ammonia Compound

Michael Priebe

Southern New Hampshire University

CHM101

Instructor Bregman

20211114

Choice of compound

In this presentation, ammonia is the compound of my choice. Ammonia is essentially a chemical compound primarily comprised of nitrogen and hydrogen, and it is an inorganic compound that assumes NH₃ as the chemical formula. Ammonia proves to be an interesting chemical compound since it tends to be a starting chemical substance for many essential products such as inorganic fertilizers (Dalal, 2017). It is relevant in many dimensions of our lives, and we directly or indirectly interact with it daily. Ammonia is often produced naturally and industrially; it tends to be the only primary gaseous chemical substance in the atmosphere, making it interesting to explore.

Personal experiences

We interact with the ammonia compound and its derivatives daily, and it exists naturally in us and the environment. This is because it tends to be very vital for many biological activities and as an essential precursor for the synthesis of nucleotides and amino acids (Mohiuddin et al., 2019). This implies that the ammonia compound is a critical part of life. Ammonia compound proves to be one of our body's metabolic wastes, evident majorly in the form of urea. Furthermore, ammonia is evident in most of the fertilizers that I often interact with and common cleaning substances in the form of ammonium hydroxide.

Preview

Ammonia compound is an interesting chemical compound common in most commercial activities, and it is also implicated in several natural processes in the environment. Ammonia compound is chemically reactive, whereby it can react with several chemical substances; this explains why it naturally exists in various forms (Mackay et al., 2017). The main essence of this undertaking is to express the relevance of the ammonia compound, which tends to be an interesting common chemical compound.

References

Dalal, M. (2017). A Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry–Volume 1. Dalal Institute.

Mackay, R. A., & Henderson, W. (2017). Introduction to modern inorganic chemistry. CRC Press.

Mohiuddin, S. S., & Khattar, D. (2019). Biochemistry, ammonia.