Low temperature hydrolysis of laboratory tholins in ammonia-water solutions: Implications for prebiotic chemistry on Titan

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 412-421

  Neish, Catherine D ^a   Somogyi, Árpád ^b   Lunine, Jonathan I ^a,c   Smith, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c INAF   (Italy)

Author keywords

Prebiotic chemistry; Prebiotic environments; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 63749112311     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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