Ammonia at ambient conditions
Haber–Bosch uses about 1–2% of world energy and emits over 1% of global CO2. Nitrogenase enzymes do it at room temperature. Electrochemical routes are promising, but many reported results were later traced to contamination, so the field adopted strict isotope-labeling protocols.
What would settle it
15N isotope-labeled yield under a standard protocol
Sources
Relations to this page
- related to Fixing nitrogen from the air solved · V3
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