We have previously learned about the haber process as the industrial method to produce ammonia
Why do we need such large quantities of ammonia? And why is it so important?
Ammonia is used to produce fertilizers nitric acid and certain household cleaning products
Ammonia is also used as a starting [material] for explosives and many pharmaceutical products
Nitrogen is important and essential for plant growth although Air is approximately
77% Nitrogen Plants Cannot breathe it in
instead it must be dissolved in water and
absorbed through their roots
This is done. [naturally] by lightning and by certain types of Bacteria
Though it does not happen often or fast enough to sustain crop growth and hence fruit production
Fertilizers are used to increase the nitrogen content of soil or in other words make it more fertile
Livestock manure has been traditionally used as natural fertilizers, but this has become too difficult
provided the massive size of many Crop Fields [two] very common artificial fertilizers are ammonium nitrate and
Ammonium [sulphate] and you got it. They are made from ammonia
Ammonium nitrate is made from Ammonia and nitric acid
Ammonium sulfate is made from ammonia and sulfuric acid
The constant production of these fertilizers is very important to sustain global food production
Nitric acid is also manufactured from Ammonia in a series of steps
First Ammonia combines with oxygen
Over a platinum catalyst to produce
nitrogen monoxide and water then
Nitrogen monoxide further combines with oxygen to produce nitrogen dioxide which is [a] brown gas
lastly nitrogen dioxide and oxygen
Dissolve in water to Form Nitric acid by combining these equations. We get this overall reaction
to produce nitric acid from Ammonia
Nitric acid is used in the production of ammonium [nitrate] and other nitrate based fertilizers
It is also used as a starting [material] for many explosives a common one being tnt or trinitrotoluene
Nitric acid is also very important for [the] pharmaceutical industry it is also used to produce certain dyes
These dyes are [used] as food coloring in the textiles industry and even as indicators
Royal water or aqua Regia is a mixture of one part concentrated nitric acid and three parts
Concentrated hydrochloric acid in the laboratory it is used to clean glassware
But a much more interesting application is its use in the purification of gold and platinum
very dilute solutions of aqueous ammonia
approximately five to ten percent weight [by] volume are commonly sold as
Household cleaning products you may have encountered at household ammonia in your own kitchen [and] in your bathroom cleaning products
so to Recap ammonia is used for the production of cleaning products and
Pharmaceutical products even more importantly ammonia and the fertilizers we produce with it are vital to sustaining
Global food production our world population [is] growing massively and without such agricultural technology
We would be even less able to prevent famines
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