FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450. Excludes all international deliveries.

  • Not safe to deliver by Christmas NOTSANTA SAFE
    Synthetic Nitrogen Industry in World War I

Synthetic Nitrogen Industry in World War I

Anthony S. Travis
    Product form
      FORMAT: Paperback / softback

      R 2,109.10 Price and availability exclusive to website

      YOU COULD EARN 2,109.10 FUTURE RETAIL DISCOUNTS.
      ESTIMATED DELIVERY: Approx. 10 - 15 Business Days
      BUY NOW PAY LATER
      From R 351.51 per month!
      3x monthly payments of R 703.03 with
      4x fortnightly payments of R 527.27 with
      This concise brief describes how the demands of World War I, often referred to as the Chemists’ War, led to the rapid emergence of a new key industry based on fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Then, as now, nitrogen products, including nitric acid, and nitrates, were essential for both fertilizers and in the manufacture of modern explosives. During the first decade of the twentieth century, this stimulated research into and application of novel processes. This book illustrates how from late 1914 the relations and developments in the first modern military-industrial complex enabled the great capital expenditures and technological advances that accelerated massive expansion, particularly of the BASF Haber-Bosch high-pressure process, that determined the direction of the post-war chemical industry. 
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Anthony S. Travis EAN: 9783319193564 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 2759 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer International Publishing AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-07-21 CITY: GENRE: SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Inorganic, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical, SCIENCE / History WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      History of science, Chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Anthony S. Travis, PhD, is deputy director of Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on the history of chemical technology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Currently he is undertaking research into the life of the British chemist Raphael Meldola, a close friend of Heinrich Caro and other leading German chemists, as well as of Charles Darwin. He is recipient of the American Chemical Society's History of Chemistry Division 2007 Edelstein Award in the history of chemistry.
      This concise brief describes how the demands of World War I, often referred to as the Chemists’ War, led to the rapid emergence of a new key industry based on fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Then, as now, nitrogen products, including nitric acid, and nitrates, were essential for both fertilizers and in the manufacture of modern explosives. During the first decade of the twentieth century, this stimulated research into and application of novel processes. This book illustrates how from late 1914 the relations and developments in the first modern military-industrial complex enabled the great capital expenditures and technological advances that accelerated massive expansion, particularly of the BASF Haber-Bosch high-pressure process, that determined the direction of the post-war chemical industry. 
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Anthony S. Travis EAN: 9783319193564 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 2759 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer International Publishing AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-07-21 CITY: GENRE: SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Inorganic, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical, SCIENCE / History WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      History of science, Chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Anthony S. Travis, PhD, is deputy director of Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on the history of chemical technology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Currently he is undertaking research into the life of the British chemist Raphael Meldola, a close friend of Heinrich Caro and other leading German chemists, as well as of Charles Darwin. He is recipient of the American Chemical Society's History of Chemistry Division 2007 Edelstein Award in the history of chemistry.

      Recently viewed products

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account