Production of Atmospheric Nitrogen: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3390, a Bill to Provide Further for the National Defense; to Establish a Self-sustaining Federal Agency for the Manufacture, Production, and Development of the Products of Atmospheric Nitrogen for Military, Experimental, and Other Purposes; to Provide Research Laboratories and Experimental Plants for the Development of Fixed-nitrogen Production; and for Other Purposes, [March 22, April 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 20, 21, 27, 28, 1920]. |
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... steam - generated power . We have a very large power plant down there , one of the largest power plants I know of anywhere in the world , so far as its units are concerned . There is one unit there of 60,000 kilowatts , which is equal ...
... steam - generated power . We have a very large power plant down there , one of the largest power plants I know of anywhere in the world , so far as its units are concerned . There is one unit there of 60,000 kilowatts , which is equal ...
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... steam units will be of no consequence , will they ? Secretary BAKER . The steam units will be of consequence , because they will be used to supplement the low stage of the river . Senator NORRIS . Then the horsepower developed by water ...
... steam units will be of no consequence , will they ? Secretary BAKER . The steam units will be of consequence , because they will be used to supplement the low stage of the river . Senator NORRIS . Then the horsepower developed by water ...
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... steam plant to supple- ment the water power . Senator NORRIS . I mean without any supplemental steam plant . In figuring on Great Falls they found it only went down once in 15 years during which it was measured . Mr. ROBERTS . As the ...
... steam plant to supple- ment the water power . Senator NORRIS . I mean without any supplemental steam plant . In figuring on Great Falls they found it only went down once in 15 years during which it was measured . Mr. ROBERTS . As the ...
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... steam . Steam is blown into a gas producer in a manner similar to that employed in making water gas commercially , and a gas with about 50 per cent hydrogen is obtained . The balance of this gas is mainly carbon monoxide . This must now ...
... steam . Steam is blown into a gas producer in a manner similar to that employed in making water gas commercially , and a gas with about 50 per cent hydrogen is obtained . The balance of this gas is mainly carbon monoxide . This must now ...
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... steam under pressure of about 150 pounds to the square inch . The nitrogen is converted almost quantitatively into ammonia , which is evolved as a gas and may be absorbed in sulphuric acid to make ammonium sulphate to be used for ...
... steam under pressure of about 150 pounds to the square inch . The nitrogen is converted almost quantitatively into ammonia , which is evolved as a gas and may be absorbed in sulphuric acid to make ammonium sulphate to be used for ...
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agriculture Air Nitrates Corporation American Cyanamid American Cyanamid Co ammonium nitrate ammonium sulphate amount arc process BOWER by-product coke ovens by-product ovens capacity cent CHAIRMAN chemical Chile Chilean nitrate coal commercial committee construction consumption contract cost cottonseed meal cyanamid process electric estimate expense explosives farmer figures fixation fixed nitrogen furnace GAILLARD Germany going Government Haber process horsepower increase interest JOYES labor LANDIS manufacture material ment mixed fertilizers Muscle Shoals plant nitrate of soda nitrate plant nitric acid nitrogen compounds nitrogen fixation operation Ordnance Department patents phosphate phosphoric acid potash pounds present production profit purposes quantity question royalty SCOTT Secretary BAKER Senator KENDRICK Senator MCNARY Senator NORRIS Senator RANSDELL Senator SMITH Senator WADSWORTH SMITH of South sodium nitrate South Carolina statement sulphate of ammonia supply thing tion to-day tons of nitrogen United WASHBURN water power
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