The synthetic nitrogen industry in World War I [electronic resource] : its emergence and expansion / Anthony S. Travis.

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The synthetic nitrogen industry in World War I [electronic resource] : its emergence and expansion / Anthony S. Travis.

9783319193571 electronic book
3319193570 electronic book
9783319193564
3319193562

Cham : Springer, 2015.

English

1 online resource (ix, 161 pages) : 66 illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-319-19357-1 doi

HD9660.N7 T73 2015eb

660
338.4/7661894

This concise brief describes how the demands of World War I, often referred to as the Chemists' War, led to the rapid emergence of a new key industry based on fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Then, as now, nitrogen products, including nitric acid, and nitrates, were essential for both fertilizers and in the manufacture of modern explosives. During the first decade of the twentieth century, this stimulated research into and application of novel processes. This book illustrates how from late 1914 the relations and developments in the first modern military-industrial complex enabled the great capital expenditures and technological advances that accelerated massive expansion, particularly of the BASF Haber-Bosch high-pressure process, that determined the direction of the post-war chemical industry. .

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