Concentrated Nitric Acid and Expansion of the Nitrogen Industry in Germany, France and Britain

Abstract

Around 1912–1913, laboratory studies into the manufacture of nitric acid from synthetic ammonia had been taken up by both the Hoechst Dyeworks and BASF . The Bayrische factory at Trostberg , as noted, already produced nitric acid from cyanamide, while the coal industry used the Gerthe (Ostwald) process to make the acid from coal gas works and coke oven ammonia.