What is fertilizer made of?
Fertilizer takes ammonia, nitric acid, carbon dioxide, phosphate rock, sulfuric acid and potash directly. Trace them back and you pass 6 made things on the way to 10 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 10 raw materials
- Phosphate rock goes straight in
- Potash goes straight in
- Natural gas through carbon dioxide
- Water through sulfuric acid
- Air through sulfuric acid
- Corn through carbon dioxide
- Limestone through carbon dioxide
- Sulfur through sulfuric acid
- Sugarcane through carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses