Bosch process

noun

1. obsolete.
   an industrial process for manufacturing hydrogen by the catalytic reduction of steam with carbon monoxide

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bosch process¹

C20: named after Carl Bosch (1874–1940), German chemist

Example Sentences

This significant discovery brings us one step closer to potentially engineering non-legume cereal crops like wheat, rice and maize to develop root nodule organs to host nitrogen fixing bacteria and reduce our reliance on industrial nitrogen fertilisers produced via the energy consuming Haber Bosch Process.

From Science Daily

Unlike the Haber–Bosch process, however, nitrogenases do not use hydrogen gas as a source of hydrogen atoms.

From Nature

Viewed through this lens, the Haber–Bosch process is close to being a thermodynamically ideal process for ammonia synthesis, and is not as energetically harsh as it is sometimes claimed to be.

From Nature

But the process involved — the nitrogen-fixing Haber–Bosch process — is energy intensive: it accounts for a few per cent of the world's annual energy use.

From Nature

When Germany was denied access to Chile’s saltpetre during the First World War, the Haber–Bosch process gave it — and the world — an alternative, which it grasped with both hands.

From Nature