Talk:Ammonium chloride

message: This is a subject dear to my heart (who doesn't love eating ammonium chloride?!? :-) ).
While Finland is perhaps the largest exporter of ammonium chloride based candy (thanks to Fazer), ammonium chloride is widespread in candy all over Scandinavia, and I believe (but have not personally confirmed) it to be sold in at least parts of Germany and the Netherlands as well.
The most well known brands internationally might be Turkish Pepper (Fazer) - a "shell of boiled ammonium chloride, salt and sugar containing a powder of the same -, and Salmiakki (Fazer) - small "pills" of pressed ammonium chloride, liquorice and salt, but a huge number of other types are manufactured both by large manufacturers like Fazer-Cloetta and Haribo.
As a kid in Norway I grew up consuming vast quantities of the stuff - usually I'd spent at least half my allowance on various "salty" candies.
They vary from just powdered ammonium chloride combined with one or more of sugar, salt and liquorice, via chewy liquorice products with added ammonium chloride and salt, through hard boiled shells of ammonium chloride with one or more of the earlier mentioned ingredients with or without variations of the powder. Often there are small amounts of other stuff in it as well.
Most of the same countries where ammonium chloride in candy is popular also consume a lot of extremely sour candies and confectionary...
From experience, though, don't try to introduce English people to it without preparing them for the taste in advance - I've yet to find a single one here in London that have appreciated the experience...
Vidar
:Glöm inte glass med lakritssmak :) 217.209.101.155 22:49, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Which translates to don't forget licorice-flavored icecream. True; popular in at least Sweden, since at least the 1990s, or whenever GB introduced Lakritspucken. JöG (talk) 10:29, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common as candy more places than Finland 

message: The only place on the net that lists this is this article, and its derivatives.  The other three are not named anywhere.
-- ~ender 2005-03-18 12:15:MST
I am tagging that statement requesting citation. Also, what did the Arabs use ammonia for? Does anyone know? Asd28 19:16, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  4 alchemical spirits? 

message: Hey why is this article acting like this is poison. It tastes good and I only agree with that "wash your eyes" stuff. This is used as candy and I have even made it in school (and ate it ofc).
"Induce vomiting. If victim is conscious and alert, give 2-4 cupfuls of milk or water.Seek medical help" <- total crap. It is strong as pure but not dangerous.
*That is standard MSDS language.   They have that on sodium chloride.   That is just first aid measures. LoyalSoldier 23:07, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oxlaic Acid is toxic, but if you eat rhubarb you eat something that is toxic.   Moderation is the key here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LoyalSoldier (talk • contribs) 07:27, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Poison"?

message: (Lines temporarily remove from main page till reaction is clarified) 
"It is used in manufacturing ammonium perchlorate (NH4ClO4):
::NaClO4 + NH4Cl → NH4ClO4 + NaCl"
The reaction listed for making Ammonium Perchlorate needs to be checked because that reaction can not happen on its own.  Either it needs more information or needs to be corrected.  Both salts are soluble, only one ion is a weak acid or base, and nothing else is indicated.  The two solids will not react in solution or other states.  So unless a distillation or something like that occurs, this reaction isn't possible.  LoyalSoldier 17:35, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ammonium perchlorate is less soluble than ammonium chloride, sodium chloride, and sodium perchlorate; therefore it is possible to precipitate it out of the solution. I don't know whether it is true that it is manufactured that way, though. --Itub 16:21, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See that is the kind of information I am talking about.  That makes more sense.  LoyalSoldier 07:08, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reaction check 

message: Does anybody have any information on the use of ammonium chloride as a nutritive medium for yeast?Digs80236 05:41, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ammonium Chloride 

message: I removed the line:
It is the active ingredient in many antiperspirants, usually aerosols. 
I am pretty sure the author was confusing ammonium chloride with aluminium chloride. Asd28 19:12, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  antiperspirant?? 

message: I removed the boiling point from the table.  Can't boil after it sublimes!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shniken1 (talk • contribs) 23:04, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sublimation point and boiling point?? 

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thread_title: [[WP:FOOD|WikiProject Food and drink]] Tagging

message: "Ammonium chloride (NH4Cl) (also Sal Ammoniac, salmiac, nushadir salt, zalmiak, sal armagnac, sal armoniac, salmiakki, salmiak and salt armoniack)"
At least some of these are obvious foreign translations, like salmiakki (finnish).
Actually, it seems that "salmiakki" *is* used in english, but rather refers to salty liquorice, as does "salmiak" according to the article on salty liquorice, to which in fact both salmiakki, salmiak and zalmiak are redirected. Salmiac, on the other hand, is redirected to ammonium chloride.
I take this to be sufficient grounds for me removing salmiakki, salmiak and zalmiak from this list.Beryllium-9 (talk) 07:14, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names 

message: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't ammonium chloride used in instant ice packs? How come these aren't mentioned in the article?
Zootboy (talk) 01:22, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ice packs 

message: I'm finding it difficult to find any reputable sources stating that NH4Cl does not sublimate, but dissolves into two compounds. The source we have cited now states "Ammonium chloride sublimes readily and in the process dissociates ... reversing its formation reaction to form NH3 and HCl" this doesn't say to me that NH4Cl  doesn't sublime, but dissociates after the sublimation. --24.20.141.73 (talk) 20:36, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't sublimate? 

message: I find it difficult to believe the claim in the "Other applications" section that ammonium chloride can be used for disinfection. I'll leave it in the article for another month to give whoever made the claim time to back it up with a good citation. If it's still lacking a citation on the 10th July then I intend to remove it.
Note that I'm not saying that the claim is wrong or rubbish, just that I need to see objective evidence before I'll feel comfortable leaving it in an encyclopaedia article.
I've done some Googling around, and have found that quaternary ammonium compounds are indeed used as disinfectants, but have found no references to ammonium chloride.
Barney Stratford (talk) 10:27, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: These articles often contain urban folktales, hippy science, and other hearsay.  Wikipedia relies on editors like you to point out these issues.  It is often a good idea to just remove suspect content since the anecdotes are not of major significance.--Smokefoot (talk) 12:56, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fair warning 

message: Mention could be made to the (controversial) use as urine pH lowering agent in methamphetamine overdose. Lowered pH favors the protonated form of this drug, which is less readily reabsorbed by the renal tubules. I may add it later. --Lucasdealmeidasm (talk) 18:17, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medical use for methamphetamine overdose 

message: It is used in Aqua-ban. Aqua-ban "eliminates excess body water". 
I will put this in at some point. 78.151.25.126 (talk) 19:16, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use as diuretic? 

message: I thought ammonium chloride was a salt. It is per the article "the product from the reaction of hydrochloric acid and ammonia.", or an acid and a base. I thought (assumed, actually) that a salt was therefore by definition pH neutral, but given the headline quote, it's not. Do I misunderstand what a salt is, or what a pH neutrality is, or does NH4Cl in water do something I don't understand?
It's really a chemistry question, not particular to this chemical, and I'm not a chemist, but I'd like to know, thanks. 92.2.141.152 (talk) 18:17, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: As a general rule, the salt of a strong acid (e.g. hydrochloric) and a weak base (e.g. ammonium hydroxide) will be a weak acid. (And vice versa, the salt of a weak acid and a strong base, sodium fluoride for example, will be a weak base.) This is not the place to go into details, but the mild acidity stated is plausible.Joe Avins (talk) 19:19, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "A 5% by weight solution of ammonium chloride in water has a pH in the range 4.6 to 6.0" - why 

message: In the middle of the "Medicine" section there appears
: Amonia nitrate NH3NO3 NH3+ No3 = NH3NO3 Boiling point :- 56
Which appears to be 1) unrelated to the chloride, 2) not related to medicine, and 3) gibberish. Absent any explanation, I will remove it in a week.Joe Avins (talk) 19:29, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non sequitur in the Medicine Section 

message: Why is this use not mentioned?  Please update this article with common 21st century uses. Whiterosesinbloom (talk) 17:59, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in common surface disinfecting wipes 

message: 12 oz. Nickel Sulphate, 1.5 oz. Ammonium Chloride, 1.5 oz. Boric Acid added to 3 quarts water. Source: Popular Electronics June 1965. 100.34.73.179 (talk) 23:41, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Used in Hard Nickel plating solution.