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A low-carbon leap in ammonia production

For decades, scientists have been scratching their heads over an alternative for Haber-Bosch, yet in vain. And now, scientists at the Lawrence-Berkeley lab in California, USA, have announced that they have figured out a room-temperature alternative to separate the two atoms of a nitrogen molecule. This, if taken to the industry, can be the holy grail that mankind has been searching for. What the L-B lab scientists did is truly the stuff of Harry Potter.