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- Comment on Request to moderate c/motorcycles 3 weeks ago:
Ah, that makes sense. In that case I appreciate whoever winds up mod to keep the /c/ alive.
- Comment on Request to moderate c/motorcycles 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know how the process of becoming a mod works when the existing one is AWOL. But I’d be glad to moderate along with others (no access during work for me).
- Comment on Fritz Haber moment 3 months ago:
I didn’t know that aspect. Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on Fritz Haber moment 3 months ago:
Ammonia was first manufactured using the Haber process on an industrial scale in 1913 in BASF’s Oppau plant in Germany, reaching 20 tonnes/day in 1914.[12] During World War I, the production of munitions required large amounts of nitrate. The Allied powers had access to large deposits of sodium nitrate in Chile (Chile saltpetre) controlled by British companies. India had large supplies too, but it was also controlled by the British.[13] Moreover, even if German commercial interests had nominal legal control of such resources, the Allies controlled the sea lanes and imposed a highly effective blockade which would have prevented such supplies from reaching Germany. The Haber process proved so essential to the German war effort[5][14] that it is considered virtually certain Germany would have been defeated in a matter of months without it. Synthetic ammonia from the Haber process was used for the production of nitric acid, a precursor to the nitrates used in explosives.
