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The reactors that burst at 80 hours
In 1909, Carl Bosch was asked to turn a laboratory ammonia process into an industry, and his first steel reactors burst. Research and a book its publisher bills as a bestseller show why making things at scale is its own kind of problem.
Major #39: Chemical EngineeringThe story: Carl Bosch (1900s–1910s). The book: Material World by Ed Conway.
In this lesson
- Eighty hours, then the tubes burst
- Let the hydrogen out
- What the research says
- The book: Material World
- What the evidence says about the book
- Where this comes from
- Try it today
- 4 questions to check yourself