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“There are no known chemical processes for the production of either ammonia or phosphine ..."

After reading this, I was curious how ammonia can be produced in industrial quantities on Earth. The process does appear to be a chemical process:

One famous example is the Haber-Bosch nitrogen-fixation reaction, which uses a simple iron catalyst to make ammonia and other nitrogen-containing compounds from nitrogen and hydrogen

https://cen.acs.org/articles/86/i33/Haber-Bosch-Reaction-Ear...



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