(“Nifty” isn’t it.)

Chemists Discover Way To Make New Nitrogen Products ‘Out of Thin Air’
Yale University via Phys.org / August 12, 2020

A nifty move with nitrogen has brought the world one step closer to creating a range of useful products—from dyes to pharmaceuticals—out of thin air.

The discovery comes from a team of Yale chemists who found a way to combine atmospheric nitrogen with benzene to make a chemical compound called aniline, which is a precursor to materials used to make an assortment of synthetic products.

A study describing the process appears in the journal Nature.

“In the long run, we hope to learn how to use the abundant nitrogen in the air as a resource for synthesizing the products needed by society,” said Yale chemistry professor Patrick Holland, senior author of the study.

Let’s see: remove carbon and nitrogen from the atmosphere…. What could possibly go wrong?

Libs… Bless their hearts.