Which of the following ammonium salt is not used on heating with alkalis to give ammonia?

Ammonium chloride

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Ammonium sulphate

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Ammonium nitrate

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Ammonium carbonate

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Solution

The correct option is C
Ammonium nitrate

Though all ammonium salts, on heating with alkalis give $N H_{3}$ , yet $N H_{4} N O_{3}$ is not used as it is explosive in nature and it decomposes forming nitrous oxide and water vapour.

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