Nitrogen for nothing and your protein for free
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 08:14
in Physics & Chemistry
More than half of the protein within our body can be directly traced to a process invented more than 100 years ago by two German chemists, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch. The Haber-Bosch process artificially fixes nitrogen by breaking the inert triple bond of nitrogen gas into ammonia fertilizer.