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A sustainable, energy-saving way to make the key ingredient in fertilizers

  • Written by Xiaofeng Feng, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Central Florida
Ammonia production is one of the most energy-intensive industrial processes on the planet.By saoirse2013/shutterstock.com

Ammonia, with its unmistakable urinous odor, is a critical ingredient in agricultural fertilizers. With more than 145 million tonnes manufactured annually, only sulfuric acid outranks it as the world’s most produced...

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