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Synthetic Nitrogen Products

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Nitrogen products are among the most important chemicals produced in the world today. The largest quantities are used as fertilizers, but nitrogen products also find very important uses in the manufacture of nylon and acrylic fibers, methacrylate and other plastics, foamed insulations and plastics, metal plating, and gold mining, to list a few. There are virtually no nitrogen compounds that can be mined or distilled from crude oil or any other natural source. Therefore, economical fixation of nitrogen from the atmosphere has been a never ending quest. It has been a difficult task because elemental nitrogen is comparatively unreactive. It combines with few other elements, and then usually only under drastic conditions of high pressure and/or high temperature.

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Pesce, L.D., Jenks, W.R. (1992). Synthetic Nitrogen Products. In: Kent, J.A. (eds) Riegel’s Handbook of Industrial Chemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7691-0_28

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