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Ammonium hydroxide
This article claims ammonium hydroxide is fictional, but seems to have been written too quickly to be coherent. What of this article is correct? --Eequor 02:33, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * It's pretty much all correct, albeit worded awkwardly. Notice how it speaks of the Bronsted-Lowry theory, which completely explains how the Arrhenius theory, which only applys to certain chemical doesn't work. Actually, where does it say what you claim? The article is fine. -- KneeLess 07:16, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I think the "fictitious" refers to the text 'It is sometimes convenient to refer to these ions as "ammonium hydroxide". However this is a wrong way...' This certainly sounds as if it's saying that a molecule "ammonium hydroxide" doesn't really exist, but is just a convenient way of talking about aqueous ammonia, and an inaccurate way as well. OTOH the ammonia article explicitly says (under Properties) that a small amount of NH4OH exists in solution. At least one of these ought to be amended. I sure can't say which. Dandrake 19:55, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

Ammonium Hydroxide does in fact exist in, among other places, aqueous solutions of ammonia (NH3 plus water). The idea that water consists only of molecules of H2O nicely paired off is outdated; in fact, a glass of pure distilled water contains dissociated water (H+ and OH-) which in combination gives the charge-neutral H2O.

Ammonia in water combines with the OH- to give NH4OH; still present in this case are : OH- H+ H2O NH3

Ammonium Hydroxide (NH4OH) is "fictional" only in the sense that you can't walk around with a container of pure NH4OH; it is nevertheless present in each and every single bottle of water/ammonia cleaning solution. (Paul Anderson, September 22nd 2004). Readers looking for more information should consult any standard inorganic chemistry textbook.

IMHO, Ammonium Hydroxide (NH4OH) is exactly as much fictional as is Hydronium/Oxonium Hydroxide (H3OOH). When will people get it? Beryllium-9 (talk) 10:52, 29 February 2012 (UTC)