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	'''Ammonia production''' facilities provide the base [[ammonia]] used predominantly in fertilizers supplying usable [[nitrogen]] for agricultural productivity. Ammonia is one of the most abundantly-produced [[Inorganic chemistry\|inorganic chemicals]]. There are literally dozens of large-scale ammonia production plants throughout the industrial world, some of which produce as much as 2,000 to 3,000 tons per day of ammonia in liquid form. The worldwide production in 2006 was 122,000,000 metric tons.<ref>[http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/nitrogen/nitromcs07.pdf United States Geological Survey publication]</ref> [[China]] produced 32.0% of the worldwide production followed by [[India]] with 8.9%, [[Russia]] with 8.2%, and the [[United States]] with 6.5%. Without such massive production, our agriculturally-dependent civilization would face serious challenges.

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