Mankinds most important discovery! (Patreon)

Its one of those ironies that nitrogen is 80% of the air you breathe, but none of it is biologically available.  Its kinda similar to ‘water water everywhere but not a drop to drink’. Only a few bugs can actually take atmospheric nitrogen and turn it into something plants can use, which means you can use too. For millions of years this has been a bottleneck to the amount of plants that could grown on Earth. However at the dawn of the 20th century a guy called Haber invented a method of turning atmospheric nitrogen into plant food! Its been so successful that it’s the principal reason we can now feed about 7 billion people on the planet rather than a mere 1 or so. About HALF of the nitrogen in your body originated in the high temperature, high pressure Haber process. Its literally touched the lives of everyone on the planet!