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Give reason in one or two sentences.
"Ammonium chloride is acidic in liquid ammonia solvent".

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In solution of NH Cl in liquid NH3, the following reaction takes place
` NH_(4)^( +)+ NH_(3)leftrightarrow NH_(3) + NH_(4)`
Thus NH.CI gives proton. Hence it is acidic
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