Haber Process
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:38:45
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 2 pages (628 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 2 pages (628 words)
The Haber process was developed by two men; a German scientist called Fritz Haber and a French chemist called Henri Le Chatelier. The Haber process is when a reversible reaction between nitrogen and hydrogen forming ammonia.
Ammonia is a colourless gas with a very strong odour. It is made of three atoms of hydrogen and one atom of nitrogen binding together. Ammonia is widely used. It is used in many products as it liquefies easily …
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…This purified the air taken in.
The development of the Haber process to produce ammonia was a blessing since it enabled production of fertilizers, refrigeration, cleaners, dyes and numerous other beneficial products for humankind. But as it seems for many other such useful chemicals, ammonia can also be quite easily misused. Hence ironically this blessing can also become a curse if used for the wrong purposes of harming others like as in explosives during war.
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