Nitrogen Capture The Growth of an International Industry (1900-1940) /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Travis, Anthony S. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Chemistry-History.; Inorganic chemistry.; Chemical engineering.; History of Chemistry.; Inorganic Chemistry.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.

This monograph provides an account of how the synthetic nitrogen industry became the forerunner of the 20th-century chemical industry in Europe, the United States and Asia. Based on an earlier SpringerBrief by the same author, which focused on the period of World War I, it expands considerably on th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Food or Famine
• Agricultural Chemistry
• The Quest for Fixed Nitrogen
• Ammonium Sulphate
• Electricity and the Chemical Industry
• The Direct Synthesis of Ammonia
• A Time of Guns and Grain
• Wartime Expansion of the Nitrogen Industry
• Billingham: "The Synthetic"
• Non-BASF Ammonia Technology and Ammonia Oxidation
• The United States
• New Ideologies and National Security in the 1920s
• International Conferences, and an Adriatic Cruise
• Synthetic Nitrogen in the Soviet Union
• Imperial Japan: From Cyanamide to Synthetic Ammonia
• High-Pressure Synthesis and Later Developments
• Nobel Prizes and a New Technology
• A Legacy of Synthetic Nitrogen
• Catching up: Mainly Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union
• Conclusion.