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The Synthetic Nitrogen Industry in World War I: Its Emergence and Expansion

By Anthony S. Travis (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2015
ISBN
978-3-319-19356-4, 978-3-319-19357-1
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-19357-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8537445 bytes)
Series
SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
Edition
1
Pages
163\169
Time added
2015-07-18 18:00:00
Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; History

Description

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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