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Gentles, I'm looking for some more detailed information on German nitrate sources during the Great War. In particular, I'm looking for information concerning the relative efficiencies of Cyanomede vs. Haber-Bosch that are web accessible and not behind a paywall. In this case, I'm specifically interested in it in the realm of making explosives, but I will need it for fertilizer productions as well.

The industrial-scale implementation of Haber-Bosch changed a great many things, apart from ammonia production and nitrate synthesis. Implementation seems akin to the space program in a way, in that the need to do very (for the time) high pressure reactions at a very large scale, with a bunch of knock-on effects. I'm considering a timeline where Bosch, who was instrumental in figuring out how to make Haber's discovery work on something bigger than a small demonstration unit, get hit by a tram sometime around 1900.
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