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How a century of ammonia synthesis changed the world
Erisman, Jan Willem, Sutton, Mark A., Galloway, James, Klimont, Zbigniew, Winiwarter, Wilfried
Nature Geoscience
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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. This Nature Geoscience piece examines how, a century on, the world has been transformed by and become highly dependent on Haber-Bosch nitrogen.
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