The Alchemy of Air
Book description
A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the Haber-Bosch discovery that changed billions of lives—including your own.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster: Mass starvation was about to become a reality. A call went out to the world’ s scientists to find…
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A thought-provoking book about ammonia, a molecule made easily in nature but with great difficulty by humans.
Fritz Haber was the chemist who found a way to make ammonia artificially, but he was a complicated and controversial figure. The industrial production of ammonia has fed billions through its use in fertiliser, and killed millions through its use for making explosives.
From Kathryn's list on chemistry that aren’t chemistry.
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