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turning one molecule into another, on purpose, and hoping thermodynamics agrees.
means a process where reactants are transformed into different products through chemical reactions, usually to make something more useful than what you started with.
from the term formalized alongside industrial chemistry in the 19th century, when chemists stopped just observing reactions and started engineering them at scale for profit.
never 100 percentreal conversions always leave some unreacted starting material
catalysts cheatthey speed conversion without being consumed themselves
reversible mathequilibrium reactions cap max conversion regardless of time
for instance
haber-bosch process — converts nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia, feeds half the planet
catalytic cracking — converts crude oil into gasoline at refineries worldwide
co2 to methanol — iceland's carbon recycling plant runs this since 2011