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<p>The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greaterfundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, spaceflight, or television. The expansion of the world's population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 totoday's six billion would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia.In Enriching theEarth, Vaclav Smil begins with a discussion of nitrogen's unique status in the biosphere, its rolein crop production, an
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- Author
- Vaclav Smil
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262283854
- Category
- engineering
- Subjects
- Science, Agriculture, Stem
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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