The Synthetic Nitrogen Industry in World War I

Its Emergence and Expansion

By:

Anthony S. Travis

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Springerbriefs in Molecular Science

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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.

Author Biography:

Anthony S. Travis, PhD, is deputy director of Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on the history of chemical technology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Currently he is undertaking research into the life of the British chemist Raphael Meldola, a close friend of Heinrich Caro and other leading German chemists, as well as of Charles Darwin. He is recipient of the American Chemical Society's History of Chemistry Division 2007 Edelstein Award in the history of chemistry.

Release date Australia

July 21st, 2015

Author

Anthony S. Travis

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2015

Illustrations

16 Illustrations, color; 50 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 163 p. 66 illus., 16 illus. in color.

Pages

163

Series

Springerbriefs in Molecular Science

Dimensions

155x235x10

ISBN-13

9783319193564

Product ID

24142908

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