The Synthetic Nitrogen Industry in World War I

Its Emergence and Expansion

Anthony S. Travis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

IX, 163 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-19356-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Introduction.- Electric Arcs, Cyanamide, Carl Bosch, and Fritz Haber.- The Great War.- Concentrated Nitric Acid and Expansion of the Nitrogen Industry in Germany, France and Britain.- Nobel Prizes and New Technologies.- Conclusion: A Legacy of Synthetic Nitrogen.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.7.2015
Reihe/Serie	History of Chemistry
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
Zusatzinfo	IX, 163 p. 66 illus., 16 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Anorganische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Technische Chemie
	Technik
Schlagworte	Adolph Frank • BASF • Carl Bosch • Cyanamide • Fritz Haber • High Pressure Chemistry • Nikodem Caro • Nitric Acid • Synthetic Ammonia
ISBN-10	3-319-19356-2 / 3319193562
ISBN-13	978-3-319-19356-4 / 9783319193564
Zustand	Neuware