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Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
Enriching the Earth Fritz Haber Carl Bosch and the Transformation of World Food Production
Author: Vaclav Smil
The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or television. The expansion of the world's population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today's six billion would not have been possible without the synt...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262194495
ISBN-10: 026219449X
Publication Date: 12/26/2000
Pages: 360
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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