Fertilisers Flashcards
What do plant need from the soil to grow.
Plants need nutrients from the soil to grow.
What are the three essential elements required for healthy plant growth?
Nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium.
What is the definition for fertilisers?
Fertilisers are substances that restore elements, essential for healthy plant growth, to the soil.
What are the main compounds in fertilizers that provide the essential elements?
Ammonium salts
Potassium salts
Nitrates
Phosphates
Why are ammonia and nitric acid important compounds and what can be used for?
Ammonia and nitric acid are important compounds used to produce soluble, nitrogen-containing salts (ammonium salts and nitrate salts) that can be used in the commercial production of fertilisers.
what are the two types of fertilisers?
Fertilisers can be natural, such as compost and manure, or synthetic made commercially in industrial processes.
What is the formula for ammonia?
Ammonia has the formula NH3
What is the formula for ammonium?
NH4+
Name 5 properties of ammonia?
Ammonia is: Colourless less dense than air A gas with a pungent odour An alkaline gas Very soluble in water (the fountain experiment)
What happens when ammonia gas dissolves in water?
When ammonia gas dissolves in water it forms a solution of the alkali ammonium hydroxide (sometimes called ammonia solution or aqueous ammonia NH3(aq))
What are the two tests for ammonia?
One test for ammonia is it turns damp red litmus blue as it dissolves to form an alkali.
Another test for ammonia gas is to react it with hydrogen chloride gas and it forms white clouds due to tiny particles of the white solid ammonium chloride that forms.
How can ammonia gas be made?
Ammonia gas can be made in the lab by reacting any ammonium salt with any alakali.
Name three ammonium salts?
Ammonia salts include ammonium chloride, ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate.
Name three alkalis which can react with ammonium salts.
Ammonium salts will react with an alkali such as sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide or calcium hydroxide, to produce ammonia gas,
How is ammonia made industrially in the Haber process?
Ammonia is made industrially in the Haber process by the direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen.
N2 (g) + 3H2( g) ⇌ 2NH3 (g)