How does the understanding of covalent bonding and the chemistry of compounds help scientists increase food supplies?
All food are chemicals, and the way we get energy from them are the covalent bonds they have. If we fully understood covalent bonding, then we could develop catalysts that would reduce energy required to make ammonia for fertilizer. If we could fertilize our crops with less energy input it would dramatically aid in solving climate change and allow us to produce more food.
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Energy is used to do work. In our modern lives we are more and more preoccupied with finding new sources of energy to heat our buildings and move our machines, including cars. Since the dawn of the 20th century, fossil fuels have been the main way we get energy, but those forms of energy are causing environmental damage and leading to global warming. That is because the burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. New forms of energy are being sought.
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