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Haber-Bosch process
chemistry
Also known as: Haber ammonia process, synthetic ammonia process
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Science & Tech
- Also called:
- Haber ammonia process, or synthetic ammonia process
- Key People:
- Carl Bosch
- Fritz Haber
- Gerhard Ertl
- Related Topics:
- ammonia
- chemical product
Haber-Bosch process, method of directly synthesizing ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen, developed by the German physical chemist Fritz Haber. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1918 for this method, which made the manufacture of ammonia economically feasible. The method was translated into a large-scale process using a catalyst and high-pressure methods by Carl Bosch, an industrial chemist who won a Nobel Prize in 1931 jointly with Friedrich Bergius for high-pressure studies. Haber-Bosch was the first industrial chemical process to use high pressure for a chemical reaction. It directly combines nitrogen from the air with hydrogen under extremely high ...(100 of 234 words)