WAEC - Chemistry (2013 - No. 15)
The bonds in crystalline ammonium chloride are
covalent and dative
ionic and covalent
ionic, covalent and dative
ionic, covalent and hydrogen bond
Maelezo
N makes three covalent bonds with three Hydrogen and a coordinate (dative covalent) bond with with hydrogen ion, forming ammonium ion (NH\(_4 ^+\). The ammonium ion forms an ionic bond with chloride ion to form NH\(_4\)Cl.