Discovery of Ammonia
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Joseph Priestley first prepared ammonia in 1775 by heating Sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride) with slaked lime. Due to its basic nature, he called it alkaline air. In 1785, Comte Claude-Louis Berthollet determined the chemical composition of ammonia (Fig.6.1).
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