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WHEN the historian of the future writes concerning the influence of scientific discovery and achievement upon civilisation, we may be sure that he will have much to say about the political and economic effects of the development of the nitrogen-fixation industry. Of all the material factors that helped to make the War the greatest and most devastating conflict in human history, the possession by the Germans of adequate plant for making synthetic ammonia, and of adequate personnel for working it, was probably the most important. Since that time the processes for fixing atmospheric nitrogen have been further developed, and the present yearly production of fixed nitrogen is approximately 500,000 metric tons, three-quarters of which is made in Germany.
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Recent Developments in the Nitrogen-fixation Industry. Nature 115, 465–466 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115465a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115465a0