Nitrogen is quite unreactive because of the very strong covalent bonds between the two nitrogen atoms. Because of this, the only reaction of industrial importance of nitrogen is its reaction with hydrogen to produce ammonia.
In this section, we study the manufacture of ammonia and some ammonium salts.
The Haber Process
Ammonia is manufactured on a large scale by the Haber process, which was invented in 1908 by Frisz Haber as a practical method of making nitrogen compounds from nitrogen gas.
Originally, Haber invented the process to make exploives from ammonia the ratio of 1:3 the nitrogen is obtainrd from the air , while the