`Thunder': Shock waves in pre-biological organic synthesis

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Jun 1972

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1972slsci...3..254b&link_type=abstract

Space Life Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp.254-259

Physics

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A theoretical study of the gas dynamics and chemistry of lightning-produced shock waves in a postulated primordial reducing atmosphere was conducted. It was shown that the conditions are similar to those encountered in a previously performed shock-tube experiment which resulted in 36% of the ammonia in the original mixture being converted into amino acids. The calculations gave the (very large) energy rate of about 0.4 cal/cm2/yr available for amino produproduction, supporting previous hypotheses that ‘thunder’ could have been responsible for efficient large scale production of organic molecules serving as precursors of life.

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