Nitrogen fixation Norway

Lon anemia (Fe deficiency) in humans is common, but is due to low availability to plants rather than low amounts in the soil. Molybdenum deficiency, which prevents microbial nitrogen fixation, and cobalt deficiency in Australian sheep that prevents rumen bacteria from synthesizing vitamin B12, have been reported in Australia. Phosphate deficiency that led to weak bones in grazing animals was reported in Norway. 

Before 1900 the large-scale production of nitric acid was based entirely on the reaction of concentrated sulfuric acid with NaNOa and KNOj (p. 407). The first successful process for making nitric acid directly from Ni and O2 was devised in 1903 by E. Birkeland and S. Eyde in Norway and represented the first industrial fixation of nitrogen ... 

It is ironic that the Odda process is almost forgotten, even in Norway. This is especially so when we consider that although the electrochemical fixation of nitrogen was a scientific landmark that has been justly celebrated, laid the foundation for the largest Norwegian industrial enterprise for most of this century (Norsk Hydro), and made its... 

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