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Ammonia-(13)N

34819-78-8H316.03 g/mol
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A 13N-modified compound that is ammonia that has a 13N isotope as the nitrogen atom. 13N decays with a half-life of ten minutes to 13C, emitting a positron. Used in diagnostic Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. — ChEBI

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Identity & molecular properties

Source-linked values
CAS number34819-78-8ChEBI ↗
Molecular formulaH3ChEBI ↗
Molar mass16.03 g/molChEBI ↗
Monoisotopic mass16.02921 DaChEBI ↗
Formal charge0ChEBI ↗
ChEBI identifierCHEBI:135980ChEBI ↗

Cross-source molecular data

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Molar mass16.030 g/molPubChem ↗
Exact mass16.029214 DaPubChem ↗

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Names & structural identifiers

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ammonia-(13)N
azane
QGZKDVFQNNGYKY-BJUDXGSMSA-N
[H][13N]([H])[H]
InChI=1S/H3N/h1H3/i1-1

Classification & relationships

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Roles recorded in ChEBI

radioactive imaging agent

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Mass ↔ amount of substance

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Equivalent amount
0.062383 mol

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Research & patent references

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The Evaluation of Lupus Myocarditis with 13N-Ammonia and 18F-FDG PET. ↗Journal of nuclear medicine technology · 2016 Sep · PMID 26769599
Regadenoson-induced hyperemia for absolute myocardial blood flow quantitation by (13)N-ammonia PET and detection of cardiac allograft vasculopathy. ↗Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2017 Aug · PMID 28138814

Sources & record history

Checked 27 Sep 2026
EMBL-EBI ChEBI · CHEBI:135980

Release 255, 9 September 2026. ChEBI three-star (manually annotated) source entry. View original record ↗ · CC BY 4.0

NCBI PubChem · CID 119432 · retrieved 2026-09-27

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