Amino acids on the rampant primordial Earth: Electric discharges and the hot salty ocean

Molecular Diversity

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-7

  Plankensteiner, Kristof ^a   Reiner, Hannes ^a   Rode, Bernd M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Electric discharge; Origin of life; Plasma chemistry; Prebiotic chemistry; Primordial earth

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; PREBIOTIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; GEOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SEA; SIMULATION; WATER VAPOR;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOGENESIS; CARBON DIOXIDE; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRICITY; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 30744437406     PISSN: 13811991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11030-006-7009-0     Document Type: Article

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