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Biodegradation in soil

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Description of key information

No data are required. This endpoint is not relevant for an inorganic substance.  Ammonium fluoride hydrofluoride is a simple inorganic compound and therefore will not be biodegraded.

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Ammonium fluoride hydrofluoride is a simple inorganic compound and therefore will not be biodegraded as such. The substance will exist in the aqueous environment predominantly as its consituent ions. However in soil, ammonia is readily converted by a variety of bacteria, actinomycetes and fungi to ammonium (NH4+) by the process of ammonification or mineralization. Ammonium is then rapidly converted to nitrate. Nitrate is subsequently taken up and utilised by plants or returned to the atmosphere following denitrification; the metabolic reduction of nitrate into nitrogen or nitrous oxide (N2O) gas. he most likely fate of ammonium ions in soils is conversion to nitrates by nitrification.