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haber-bosch process

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Haber-Bosch process   (hä'bər-bôsh')   
n.  See Haber process.

[After Fritz Haber and Karl Bosch (1874-1940), German chemist.]
Haber process  
n.  The principal commercial method of producing ammonia, by direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst, often iron. Also called Haber-Bosch process.

[After Fritz Haber.]
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haber-bosch process

noun
an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalyst [syn: Haber process] 
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