How a century of ammonia synthesis changed the world
Abstract
On 13 October 1908, Fritz Haber filed his patent on the "synthesis of ammonia from its elements" for which he was later awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A hundred years on we live in a world transformed by and highly dependent upon Haber-Bosch nitrogen.
- Publication:
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Nature Geoscience
- Pub Date:
- October 2008
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- Bibcode:
- 2008NatGe...1..636E