High yield shock synthesis of ammonia from iron, water and nitrogen available on the early Earth

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Jun 2005

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 235, Issue 1-2, p. 356-360.

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Ammonia is a necessary precursor of amino acids in terms of the origin of life on the early Earth. However, the formation of ammonia is problematic in the non-reducing atmosphere that presently believed on the early Earth. The abiotic reduction of nitrogen is, therefore, debated currently in the oceanic and hydrothermal conditions [[J.A. Brandes, N.Z. Boctor, G.D. Cody, B.A. Cooper, R.M. Hazen, H.S. Yoder Jr., Abiotic nitrogen reduction on the early Earth, Nature 395 (1998), 365 367; D.P. Summers, S. Chang, Prebiotic ammonia from reduction of nitrite by iron (II) on the early Earth, Nature 365 (1993), 630 633; M. Dörr, J. Kaessbohrer, R. Grunert, G. Kreisel, W.A. Brand, R.A. Werner, H. Geilmann, C. Apfel, C. Robl, W. Weigand, A possible prebiotic formation of ammonia from dinitrogen on iron sulfide surfaces, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42 ( 2003), 1540 1543 [1 3]]. Here we perform shock experiments with Cu3N (nitrogen source), Fe and H2O, supposing an impact event of an extraterrestrial object to the ocean. The results demonstrate clearly the formation of ammonia in high yields. This reduction process from nitrogen to ammonia is highly probable as “local and transitional” phenomena on the early Earth when the heavy bombardment by extraterrestrial objects had become less intense but still continued in the period from 4.3 to 3.5 Gyr ago.

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