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Monday, April 11, 2011

Poison from Space the Source of Organic Compounds


As a fan of Beyond the Pleasure Principle, why does this not surprise me?

Formaldehyde occurs commonly in the Universe. It's been found to be likely that the chemical arriving on asteroids and in comets formed polymers that were able not simply to be sucked back into outer space in the early days of Earth. Carbon-rich asteroids called chondrites, formed by chunks of space dust that didn't melt or chemically separate out (differentiate), are to blame.

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