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Three inorganic gases, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, appear in the top 50 chemicals. A fourth gas, hydrogen, would also be included if it were not for the large amounts of captive use of hydrogen to manufacture ammonia, which makes it difficult to estimate hydrogen production. It is convenient to discuss all four at this time in our study of inorganic chemicals. Two of them, nitrogen and hydrogen, are used to produce ammonia, which in turn has important derivatives that will be discussed in the next chapter. Not all four major gases are manufactured by the same method. Nitrogen and oxygen, obtained by the liquefaction of air, will be discusses first. Next, carbon dioxide and hydrogen, made by the process of steam-reforming of hydrocarbons, will be considered.
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Austin, Shreve’s Chemical Process Industries, pp. 106–124.
Kent, Riegel’s Handbook of Industrial Chemistry, pp. 442–457, 1073–1084.
Thompson, Industrial Inorganic Chemicals: Production and Uses, pp. 233–256.
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Chenier, P.J. (2002). Industrial Gases. In: Survey of Industrial Chemistry. Topics in Applied Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0603-4_3
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