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This video tells how humanity fought an unequal battle for crops for millennia and finally ran into a wall of possibilities. At the end of the 19th century, the problem threatened the extinction of a significant part of the planet's population. You and I would most likely not be here. The fact is that the shortage of available nitrogen, the most common gas in the atmosphere, began to determine the limits of productivity. But atmospheric nitrogen, due to its chemical properties, could not be used directly. Scientists tried to find a way out, while politicians and businessmen were waging wars and "fever" over fertilizers. The problem was solved by a man who was improving the production of explosives. This is a scientist with a controversial biography, whose wife could not stand coexistence, but it is his scientific results that have global consequences for food production. We talk about the experiments and the impact of this discovery on the agricultural system that shaped the modern world. THE HISTORY OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS. From mustard smoke to "Novichok"    • Історія ХІМІЧНОЇ ЗБРОЇ. Від гірчичного дим...   https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wasmedia... - 💙💛 Support Ukrainian content and WAS   / was_ua   - Become our patron and support WAS 🔫 You can support once here - https://secure.wayforpay.com/donate/d... (Apple Pay, GooglePay) 🍵 https://send.monobank.ua/jar/53dzHfuoNR - 🐈 Monobank for support 4149 6293 1802 4528 💳Privat Bank Our Telegram channel - https://t.me/wasmedia_ua For advertising integrations, write to the email: [email protected] Or in Telegram: https://t.me/m_i_t_y_a 0:00 When humanity was small to go extinct 1:02 Problems of early farmers 2:19 Is the problem nitrogen deficiency? 3:58 Excrement and cemeteries 4:50 Guano! 6:35 Saltpeter fever 7:59 The first inventions of chemists 9:10 Fritz Haber 10:47 Nobel Prize with a mustard flavor 11:55 Bosch's invention 13:42 Saved!