On a Possibly Fundamental Principle in Chemistry as Viewed in a Cosmogonic Context

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Oct 1999

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Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 268, Issue 1/3, p. 21-31 (1999).

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Subject to the condition that atoms be conserved - i.e. without nuclear transmutations - we conjecture that it is impossible to synthesise organic materials in appreciable quantity from inorganic materials without the intervention of biological systems. The restriction is not a consequence of a mystic quality in the laws of physics and chemistry but of the practical disposition of materials on the Earth and in the cosmos generally. It is a corollary that biology is the means by which an approximation to thermodynamic equilibrium is maintained in materials at temperatures ~ 300 K.

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