Ammonium Salts

[fify]

We know that many chemical compounds are vitally important to the world. How important compared with other compounds are ammonium salts in chemistry, science and for the wider world?

[thor3436]

alot of things are important , but there is no one important compound
and if there was one i bet it would be O2 or CO2 not ammonium salts
but that is just my opinion .

[heidi]

Ammonium chloride is used in dry cells and as a flux in soldering.

Ammonium sulfate is used as a fertilizer.

Ammonium nitrate is used as a fertilizer and in high explosives.

Fertilizers are needed for food production. If we didn't have them, less food would be produced and the world would find it hard to feed all the people. That makes them important. I kind of think a lot of the things in the world are interconnected and so everything is important. I agree with thor about oxygen and carbon dioxide. The world would stop working immediately without these. We could survive without ammonium salts, but we'd be hungrier.

[simmy]

Every calorie of food we eat needs 10 calories of crude oil to produce it. Part of the 10 calories is making ammonium fertilizers.

[thor3436]

i still think you could live without it