1908: the pressurized loop that made industrial ammonia possible
The decisive milestone was not an isolated formula but a continuous loop that reconciled equilibrium, rate, heat, pressure, separation, and recycling.
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Pig myoglobin in a lettuce leaf: the chloroplast can become a meat-protein factory
A team at Imperial College has made tobacco and lettuce chloroplasts produce porcine myoglobin — 2.7% and 1.5% of soluble protein. The protein folds correctly, but only about one molecule in three captures its heme. The authors see a possible bottleneck in pigment availability; their own arithmetic also invites a look at how it is inserted.