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Chewbacca

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phosphates
« on: February 11, 2004, 08:33:00 AM »
would KH2PO4 + HCl > H3PO4 + KCl?
would KH2PO4 + NH4OH > (NH4)2PO4 + KOH?

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gsus

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you'll need to go through more (books) Chewie
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2004, 11:53:00 AM »
#1-yes. The strong acids transpose all phosphates, incl your K acid phosphate. and if you boil the H20 away and heat more the reaction reverses, except the sulfate gives SO3, and the heat converts the HXPOX- to other phosphates.
#2-no. KH2PO4+NH4OH+H2O=KNH4HPO4. your orthophosphate is an acid even as a salt, so it probably reacts as shown giving the double salt, or maybe not, solubilities of the reactants and products could influence this one. but this is a great place to start your chemistry- nothing will blow up-just b careful w/the acid. just do it and see what happens! you can test for orthophosphate(H2PO4-) ion by adding MgSO4(aq),NH4Cl, and NH4OH to it. you should get a precipitate of MgNH4PO4. don't ask-READ, DO, and B SAFE!

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