FritzHaber

Latest

  • Buyenlarge/Getty Images

    Researchers discover a better way to make ammonia

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    02.03.2017

    For the past century or so, we've been making ammonia the same way that Nobel-prize winning chemist Fritz Haber did: by smashing hydrogen and nitrogen gas together at 250 atmospheres and heating them to nearly 1000 degrees F. But a new method developed at the University of Utah turns that process on its head.