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Hydrazines and carbohydrazides produced from oxidized carbon in earth's primitive environmentWhether abiological organic compounds can be formed from the interactions of energy sources with nitrogen, oxidized carbon and water is held to be of importance in geochemical models of the primordial earth atmosphere. It is reported that experiments using quenched spark discharges through molecular nitrogen on aqueous suspensions of CaCO3 and other reactants to simulate the hydrosphere/atmosphere interface yield hydrazine and carbohydrazine in significant but low yields. Such reactions in primitive aquatic environments may have supplied a pathway for chemical evolution and the origin of life, on a primitive earth in which fully oxidized states of carbon were available for the primary synthesis of organic matter.
Document ID
19820030662
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Folsome, C. E.
(Hawaii Univ. Honolulu, HI, United States)
Brittain, A.
(Hawaii, University Honolulu, HI, United States)
Smith, A.
(Hawaii Univ. Honolulu, HI, United States)
Chang, S.
(NASA Ames Research Center Life Sciences Div., Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 10, 2013
Publication Date
November 5, 1981
Publication Information
Publication: Nature
Volume: 294
Subject Category
Space Biology
Accession Number
82A14197
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NGR-12-001-109
Distribution Limits
Public
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