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" The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress of civilised humanity. Other discoveries minister to our increased intellectual comfort, luxury, or convenience ; they serve to make life easier, to hasten the acquisition of wealth, or to save time, health,... "
Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their ... - Page 188
by Vaclav Smil - 2005 - 368 pages
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Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, Volume 78

Chemistry - 1898 - 356 pages
...materially from other chemical discoveries which are in the air, so to speak, but are not yet matured. The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress...worry. The fixation of nitrogen is a question of the not far distant future. Unless we can class it among certainties to come the great Caucasian race will...
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Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of ..., Volume 2

United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1899 - 1394 pages
...so to speak, but are not yet matured. The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress of civilized humanity. Other discoveries minister to our increased...worry. The fixation of nitrogen is a question of the not far distant future. Unless we can class it among certainties to come the great Caucasian race will...
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The Chemical Trade Journal and Oil, Paint and Colour Review, Volume 23

Chemical engineering - 1898 - 456 pages
...atmospheric nitrogen therefore is one of the great discoveries awaiting the ingenuity of chemists. The fixation of nitrogen Is vital to the progress...worry. The fixation of nitrogen is a question of the not far distant future. Let me see if it is not possible even now to solve the momentous problem As...
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Report of the Annual Meeting

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1899 - 1456 pages
...materially from other chemical discoveries which are in the air, so to speak, but are not yet matured. The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress...worry. The fixation of nitrogen is a question of the not far distant future. Unless we can class it among certainties to come the great Caucasian race will...
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The Wheat Problem: Based on Remarks Made in the Presidential Address to the ...

William Crookes, C. Wood Davis - Food supply - 1899 - 228 pages
...materially from other chemical discoveries which are in the air, so to speak, but are not yet matured. The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress...worry. The fixation of nitrogen is a question of the not far-distant future. Unless we can class it among certainties to come, the great Caucasian race...
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Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of ..., Volume 2

United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1899 - 1384 pages
...so to speak, but are not yet matured. The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress of civilized humanity. Other discoveries minister to our increased...worry. The fixation of nitrogen is a question of the not far distant future. Unless we can class it among certainties to come the great Caucasian race will...
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The Wheat Problem: Based on Remarks Made in the Presidential Address to the ...

William Crookes, C. Wood Davis, John Hyde - Food supply - 1900 - 308 pages
...materially from other chemical discoveries which are in the air, so to speak, but are not yet matured. The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress...worry. The fixation of nitrogen is a question of the not far-distant future. Unless we can class it among certainties to come, the great Caucasian race...
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Science, Public Policy and the Scientist Administrator: An Anthology

National Institutes of Health (U.S.) - Science and state - 1971 - 290 pages
...civilized humanity. Other discoveries minister to our increased intellectual comfort, luxury, or else convenience; they serve to make life easier, to hasten...worry. The fixation of nitrogen is a question of the not too distant future. Unless we can class it among the certainties to come, the great Caucasian race...
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Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of ...

Vaclav Smil - Science - 2004 - 372 pages
...materially from other chemical discoveries which are in the air, so to speak, but are not yet matured. The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress...worry. The fixation of nitrogen is a question of the not far-distant future.75 The conclusion was obvious: "It is the chemist who must come to rescue. ......
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Medical Review, Volume 1

1898 - 272 pages
...of largely increasing the productiveness of the wheat fields. According to Sir William's deductions, the fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress of civilised humanity ; without it, he thinks, the Caucasian race, for whom he evidently considers wheaten bread the staff...
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