Ammonium bicarbonate is a colorless or light-colored compound as a granular, plate-like or columnar crystals.

Because ammonium bicarbonate is a carbonate, it must not be placed together and acid, because acid can react to produce carbon dioxide and ammonium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate so bad. But there are also rural energy use ammonium bicarbonate and acid reaction of this nature, the ammonium bicarbonate placed in vegetable greenhouses, will shed sealed and placed in high bicarbonate, dilute hydrochloric acid. At this time, the reaction will be hydrochloric acid, ammonium bicarbonate to produce ammonium chloride, water and carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide can promote plant photosynthesis, increase vegetable production, and the resulting ammonium chloride can be used as fertilizer use again. In the chemical formula of ammonium bicarbonate, ammonium ion, an ammonium salt, and alkali and ammonium salts can not be placed one for so avoid bicarbonate or calcium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide together.