Sparks may have started life amidst water drops as we know
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The first molecules required for life on Earth could be made when the small flicker of “microlyting” between water drops gave rise to the necessary chemical reactions.
“A new way to think is how the creation blocks of life have become,” says Richard zare At the University of Stanford in California.
There is a permanent holes in our knowledge about the origin of life, especially how simple gases reacted to connecting organic molecules with carbon and nitrogen, such as proteins and enzymes, the life we know depends on it.
“If you see those gases that people thought they were on early earth, they do not have carbon-nitrogen bonds,” Zare says. “They are gases like methane, water, ammonia and nitrogen.”
Use by Stanley Miller And Herold ure In 1952, it was found that electrical water and such gases could be converted into necessary organic molecules, but their hypothesis was that electrical energy came from electricity.
Nevertheless, the low probability of electricity is colliding with a high concentration of gases in the thin expansion of the oceans or the environment, which means that many people have never been convinced that it was behind the emergence of life on Earth about 4 billion years ago.
Now, cuisine and their colleagues have sprayed water drops in a mixture of methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia and nitrogen gas-and it has shown that organic molecules can be formed with carbon-nitrogen bonds, which require no external power source.
It works because droplets in water spray produce small electrical charges, covers. “Small drops are negatively charged, with large people charged positively,” they say. This is something called Lenard Effect, in which water droplets, such as a waterfall, collide and break down, generate an electric charge.
However, the team used high-speed cameras, however, it was that when the oppositely charged drops are sufficiently closed to jump between them, which is called Zare Microlyting.
This is a lot in the way stable electricity is generated, or electricity is manufactured and discharged in clouds. “When water drops fall within each other’s nanometers, you get an electric field and this electric field causes breakdown,” they say.
The brightness of micrroliting causes enough energy to lose 12 electronwolts-gaid molecules and react with each other, producing organic molecules with carbon-nitrogen bonds, including hydrogen cyanide, amino acid glycine and ureasils, one of the components of RNA.
“It is surprising for me that microitting can start chemistry starting from nitrogen. However, the reports reported are compelling, ”says Veronica Vaida In Colorado University Boulder. “It brings a new and yet unpublished role to water in the origin of life.”
Zare said that work means that the small spark made by crashing waves or waterfalls to provide the chemicals required for life to start this planet would have been sufficient.
They say that water sprays are universal and often land on rocks, which allow organic chemicals to accumulate in their cracks, they say. The area will dry again and become moist again. Such wet-dry cycles are known to combine small molecules, or to polymerize, which are long.
“The study suggests that microlyting is abundant in an atmosphere rich in earth’s water, and prebiotic chemistry can be operated, especially where other energy sources, such as electricity or UV radiation, were rare,” Kumar Vanka Pune, in the National Chemical Laboratory in India.
Vaida feels that work also has implications for the discovery of supernatural life, often directed in search of the presence of water on other planets or moon. She says that we may have to find places that enable them to hit small drops of water.
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