In 1950, Chairman Mao Zedong made a speech in support of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) which was influenced by political necessity. Zedong believed he and the Chinese Communist Party should promote TCM but he did not personally believe in TCM and he did not use it.
Yes. The ammonium ion has a formula of NH4+ and has a positive charge so it is a cation.
Best Answer: One can think of a salt as the product of the reaction of a strong acid and a strong base. This is not always the case. Cations of weak bases are usually acidic, and anions of weak acids are usually basic. Cations of strong bases are neutral, anions of strong acids are neutral. So, ammonium salts (ammonia is a weak base) are acidic because in aqueous solution they can dissociate into ammonia and a proton. Halide anions are neutral, with the exception of F-, which is basic, because HF is a weak acid.