Usually carried out at 200 atmospheres and 600 degrees Celsius over iron, this reaction consumes about 1% of the world's energy supply and 5% of natural gas produced.
This process is usually preceded by the reaction of methane over a bed of nickel oxide, and Gerhard Ertl's won the 2007 Nobel Prize partly for discovering the catalytic mechanism of it. Usually carried out at 200 atmospheres and 600 degrees Celsius over iron, this reaction consumes about 1% of the world's energy supply and 5% of natural gas produced. Yielding several million tons of fertilize in the form of its anhydrous product, for 10 points, name this reaction which synthesizes ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen gas, named for a German.
This process is usually preceded by the reaction of methane over a bed of nickel oxide, and Gerhard Ertl's won the 2007 Nobel Prize partly for discovering the catalytic mechanism of it.
{Haber}-{Bosch} process