Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-10-20
Production of Valuable Manure from the

elements, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and
carbon and it has been satisfactorily ascer
tanned that the most of the hydrogen and nj
trogen enter the plant in the form of ammo
ma, which consists of one atom of NITROGEN
/ combined with three atoms of HYDROGEN.
The value of guano, and most other concen-
trHtcd mnnurcs, consists of considerable ex-
tent OF the ammonia which they contuin.-
As three-quarters of the atmospheric air con
slsls OF nitrogen, and as hydrogen forms one
ninth OF all pure water, if some cheap means
could be found for inducing the hydrogen of
water to enter into combination with the nj
troSen of the air in the form of ammonia, this
vaIuabI" manure could be produced in unlim-
ited quantities, and the agricultural products
OF the world enormously increased The eff.
'ortS to do this have been, at last, crowned
with success, as will be seen by the following
nrt'c'e winch we translate from the Paris
LInUcnttom
1" Since the remarkable labors of Mcssrs.
l1lcbcg, Schaltcnmann and Kuhmann, on the
icr'l!l2ihg action of ammoniacal salts, the pro-
ductlonof ammonia at a low price has become
problem of the highest interest to acricul-
ture. But to arrive at this result it is neces
sary to obtain the nitrogen elsewhere than in
the hltroScnols matters which NAV, for the
most part be employed directly as manures
and OF which the limited quantities and Gle.
vated price permits in any event only restrict
cd and costly manufacture.
Atmospheric air is an incXhaustiblc and
gratultous source of nitrogen. However this
element presents so great an indifference in its
chcmlcal reactions, that Notwithstanding the
numerous attempts which have been made.
chcuiists have not heretofore succeeded in
combining it.with hy lrogen, SO as to produce
ammonia artliicially. This result SO long de-
sired has been reserved for NJ NJ Margueritte
ana DGSourdcyal, who have obtained il bv
employing an agent of which the remarkable
properties, and neat and precise reactions have
permitted them to succeed where all others
mad failed. This agent is bayta of which
we lave often spoken on the occasion of the
recent applications that Mr. Kuhlmann has
made OF 1T III painting, but of which no per
SON suspected the role that it was to be called
to play in the development of the agricultural
riches OF our country. {" In an earthan rctort
is caIcncd ut an elevated and sustained fem.
peraturc, mixture of carbonate of baryto
IRON hlings in the proportion of about so for
lOo, the refuse OF coal tar and saw dust
his produces reduction to the state of anhv.
drouS baryta, of the greater parts of the car
Donate employed Afterwards, across the
porous mass, is slowly passed current of air
V''c oxygen oil which Is converted into c0rbonc
o%yd by Its passage over column of incun
descent charcoal, while its nitrogen, in prcs.
Shcc OF the charcoal and of the baryum, trans
lHrmS Itself INTO cyanogcn and produces con
SIDERABLE Quantities OF cyanurct In effect,
'rc matter sheltered from the air and cooled,
ana washed with boiling water, gives with the
"aI's OF IRON an abundant prcciptatc of Prus,
sian blue The mixture thus culcined and
cyanuretted ti is received into a cylinder of eli
ther cast or wrought iron, which serves both
as an eXtnSulsher and as an apparatus for tho
transformation of the cyanurct Through
TINS cylinder, at tcmpruturc less than 30(
deg (Centlsrade), is passed current o
steam which dlScngagcs, under the form o
ammonia, all the nitrogen contained in tn,
cyanuret OF bafyum.
Cosmos, from which IMocmtion cxtraot
the above article, properly remarks that it il
impossible to foresce all the results of this
great discovery. Among other things, it sug
@ests the production of nitric acid from the
ar Oy oNydlzlng ammonia. Scientific inner
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