Ammonia (NH3) is a colorless, pungent, toxic gas more properly referred to as anhydrous ammonia.
When ammonia is added to carbon dioxide to make urea, it is the building block chemical for lots of agricultural fertilizers. Until the end of the nineteenth century, almost all fertilizers were organic in the modern sense. They were derived from composting agricultural, animal and human waste. As the world population increased, so did its need to feed itself. Far to many years of slash and burn agriculture, along with growing the same crops in the same fields for scores of years had led to critical soil depletion. Imported guano was getting costly as crops yields were falling.
Haber’s process of directly combining nitrogen and hydrogen to create ammonia gave birth to an entire synthetic fertilizer industry in Europe and North America. Once premium quality, bountiful and affordable ammonia came on the market, in addition to agricultural chemicals, an original synthetic dye industry developed, as well as the first successful automatic document duplication process.
Today most world-scale ammonia is manufactured and directly used in the agriculture industries. Cylinder quantities of Anhydrous 99.99% Pure Ammonia are also used in agricultural and fertilizer research, metal treatment, wastewater treatment and pharmaceuticals, and when mixed with water to create aqueous ammonia, in cleaning products. Ultra High Purity Ammonia, 99.999% is used as a blending component in calibration gases for emission and personal hygiene monitoring, as well as some specialty semiconductor manufacturing.
For further details about PurityPlus® Ammonia (NH3) and its availability, call PurityPlus® Specialty Gases by Weldstar at 708-627-1007 or contact us online.
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