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Why ammonia is a good complexing agent?

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N-atom in `NH_(3)` has lone pair of electrons. N-atom loses the electron .pair and acts as a ligand, Ir because nitrogen has small size and high electron density on it. Hence, `NH_(3)` is a good complexing agent.
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