Articlediamond2001

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SALITRE (SODIUM NITRATE) INDUSTRY

28 citations0/0 files storedIndian Journal of Chemical Technology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis Historical Economic and Social Studies History and advancements in chemistry

Abstract

The nitrate fields in Chile are exceptional for their mineral content and unknown origin and serve as an excellent example how a chemical technology can arise to create a very large and almost exclusive market, to be sent then almost into oblivion by competing technologies. The income from sodium nitrate export provided for many years almost 50% of the income of the Chilean government and a large part of the world needs for fertilizers. Development of the Haber-Bosch process for ammonia synthesis resulted in the crash of the dream and a serious economic crisis for Chile.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 28 citations exist upstream.

Cited by

2019Volatility drivers on the metal market and exposure of producing countries

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.