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Chapter 4: Nitrogen and Its Compounds
— The gas that feeds the world — and the chemistry that makes it possible. —
Why this matters
(I once asked a class, "How many people here had breakfast today?" Almost every hand went up. Then I asked, "How many of you know where that food came from?" Silence. And then I said: the reason you had breakfast today is a chemical process invented over a hundred years ago — the Haber process. It takes nitrogen from the air and turns it into ammonia, which bec
