Enriching the earth : Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the transformation of world food production /
Smil, Vaclav.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
c2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nitrogen in agriculture -- Traditional sources of nitrogen -- New sources of the nutrient -- A brilliant discovery -- Creating an industry -- Evolution of ammonia synthesis -- Synthetic fertilizers -- Our dependence on nitrogen - Consequences of the dependence -- Nitrogen and civilization.
Nitrogen fertilizers.
Ammonia as fertilizer.