Ammonia liquor is prepared by dissolving:

ammonia gas in alcohol

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ammonia gas in water

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The correct option is C ammonia gas in water
Ammonia liquor is prepared by dissolving Ammonia in water. Ammonia liquor is also known as ammonia water or some times known as ammonium hydroxide.
In aqueous solution, ammonia deprotonates a small fraction of the water to give ammonium and hydroxide according to the following equilibrium:
$N H_{3} + H_{2} O \to N H_{4}^{+} + O H^{-}$

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