Word: nitrogenating
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...would have ended within a few months. With it, the greatest care had to be used lest the supply give out too soon. Savior of the situation at this critical time was the great scientist Fritz Haber, who made practical the extraction, on a large scale, of nitrogen from the air. Thus began the commercial production of synthetic nitrogen. After the War, another German scientist, Carl Bosch, adapted the process to peacetime uses, and became chief of Europe's largest corporation, the I. G. Farbenindustrie. Now Germany im ports no nitrate from Chile, but exports each year about...
Atom Building. Patiently, the University of Chicago's Dr. William Draper Harkins sat beside a nitrogen tube and took 10.000 photographs, attempting to get an "atom collision" on the print. Each turned out badly, revealed nothing...
Specifically he was shooting helium atoms (alpha particles derived from radio active thorium) from a shuttered, camera-like box into a tube containing nitrogen and water vapor. The helium atoms traveling at a clip of 11,000 mi. per sec. smashed into the nitrogen atoms. The force of the impact caused the atoms to merge for an instant to form fluorine which immediately broke down, with explosive force, into hydrogen and oxygen...
Synthetic resins (like Zalmite) are basically a chemical synthesis of phenol (carbolic acid), formaldehyde and some form of nitrogen. Wood flour is used as a filler. Zalmite is rendered light and porous by sending a blast of air through the soft uncast material...
...probably larger than the Earth and smaller than Neptune, and can be seen only with the most powerful telescopes now in existence. It has been estimated that the sun's light at this farthest planet can hardly exceed that of moonlight, and under such a low temperature the nitrogen that might be in the air would be solid and the oxygen, if not solid, at least a dense liquid...