Ammonia
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Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3. A stable binary hydride and the simplest pnictogen hydride, ammonia is a colourless gas with a distinctive pung
A train carrying anhydrous ammonia through Bray, Ireland
Liquid ammonia bottle
Jabir ibn Hayyan wrote about ammonia in the 9th century
This high-pressure ammonia reactor was built in 1921 by BASF in Ludwigshafen and was re-erected on the premises of the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
Haber process
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The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia. It converts atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia by a reaction with hydrogen using fi
Ammonia
…in the form of dissolved urea. Ammonia is produced biologically in a process called nitrogen fixation, but even more is generated industrially by the Haber process. The process helped revolutionise agriculture by providing cheap fertilizers. Conventional ammonia production accounts for about 500 million ton/year…
Carl Bosch, 1927
First reactor at the Oppau plant in 1913
Severnside fertilizer plant northwest of Bristol, UK