QUESTION Meteorites' mechanical energy might have created building blocks of life | Research | Chemistry World
‘There have been many studies that have shown meteorites as shuttles for material that ends up on Earth,’ Hernández says. ‘But we were interested if the mechanical energy of those landings could have activated certain chemical systems.’ The team simulated this by milling an aldehyde and an amine with potassium cyanoferrate and silicon dioxide. An hour and a half later, the reagents had converted into ?-aminonitriles, precursors to amino acids.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.My currently held idea of how life started is a mix of panspermia and rna theory, but this could also be a piece of the puzzle, it’s got potential.
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