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Making Ammonium Zinc Chloride

I'm a student at the University of Texas. I'm doing a lab where I have to create ammonium zinc chloride from an alkaline D cell battery. My starting material is zinc and I can use any chemicals I want to to make my product. I was wondering what I have to add or do to the zinc to produce ammonium zinc chloride.

Thanks.

Kayla Shie
student - Austin, Texas, United States
2004

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I am not familiar with this experiment, so be sure to do it under a fume hood in case it evolves ammonia ⇦ this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] fumes. But it would seem that mixing ammonia and salt into water would give you an electrolyte into which you can electrolytically dissolve the zinc.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2004

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I recently produced ammonium chloride by using household clear ammonia (which is ammonium hydroxide) with hydrochloric acid(muriatic acid) and boiling off the water that was produced. This is in a solution so I thought adding zinc, it would bind with the product once mixed.

the original NH4Cl production:

NH4OH + HCl > NH4Cl + H20

I boiled the solution to remove the water and left over was my ammonium chloride. I figure adding zinc somewhere in the reaction would create what you need.

Charlie Murrah
- Atlanta, GA, USA
2007

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June 21, 2009

HI, I'M KK SHAH FROM AHMEDABD, GUJARAT, India and I WILL TELL You HOW TO MAKE ZINC AMMONIUM CHLORIDE.

FIRST TAKE ZINC FROM WASTE BATTERY CELL AND THEN ADD HCl (HYDROCHLORIC ACID)TILL MATERIAL BECOME NEUTRAL AND IN BETWEEN YOU CAN ADD AMMONIUM CHLORIDE OR YOU CAN PASS AMMONIUM GAS THROUGH.

K.K.SHAH
- AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, India