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#86 Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon)

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The Problem With High Pressure, High Temperature Hydrogen

Bosch created a factory that was making ammonia-based fertilizer every hour. He wanted to make the oven walls impenetrable, holding in gases and the pressure. But eventually they reach a point where the pressure's too much and it explodes. Bosch realized something else: Why not simply accept the fact that hydrogen was going to attack it?

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