UREA

Global Wholesale Supply – The direct world-wide supplier of Urea

Whether it is prilled or granular Urea, Global Wholesale Supply has the ability to meet your requirements and needs. Our efficiency and dependability is unequaled in the industry. We work hard each day to maintain this reputation.

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Interesting Facts About Urea:

Urea was first discovered in human urine in 1773 by H. M. Rouelle. Urea is essentially a waste product: it has no physiological function. It is dissolved in blood and excreted by the kidney.

Urea was synthesized in 1828 by Friedrich Wohler and was the first organic compound to be synthesized from inorganic starting materials. In 1870 urea was produced by heating ammonium carbamate in a sealed vessel. This provided the basis of the current industrial process for its production.

Urea's commercial uses include:

1. As a raw material for the manufacture of plastics specifically, urea-formaldehyde resin.
2. As a component of fertilizer and animal feed, providing a relatively cheap source of fixed nitrogen to promote growth.
3. As an alternative to rock salt in the deicing of roadways and runways. It does not promote metal corrosion to the extent that salt does.
4. As an ingredient in some hair conditioners, facial cleansers, bath oils and lotions.
5. It is also used as a reactant in some ready-to-use cold compresses for first-aid use, due to the endothermic reaction it creates when mixed with water.
6. Used, along with salts, as a cloud seeding agent to expedite the condensation of water in clouds, producing precipitation.
7. Active ingredient for diesel engine exhaust treatment.
8. Sometimes used as a browning agent in factory-produced pretzels.

Fertilizer Urea:

Commercially, fertilizer urea can be purchased as prills or as a granulated material. In the past, it was usually produced by dropping liquid urea from a “prilling tower” while drying the product. The prills formed a smaller and softer substance than other materials commonly used in fertilizer blends. Today, though, considerable urea is manufactured as granules. Granules are larger, harder, and more resistant to moisture. As a result, granulated urea has become a more suitable material for fertilizer blends.

Advantages of Fertilizer Urea:

1. Urea can be applied to soil as a solid or solution or to certain crops as a foliar spray.
2. Urea usage involved little or no fire or explosion hazard.
3. Urea’s high analysis, 46% N, helps reduce handling, storage and transportation costs over other dry N forms.
4. Urea manufacture releases few pollutants to the environment.
5. Urea, when properly applied, results in crop yield increases equal to other forms of nitrogen.