Prussian blue salt linked to origin of life

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 12:28 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have shown that hydrogen cyanide, urea and other substances considered essential to the formation of the most basic biological molecules can be obtained from the salt Prussian blue. In order to carry out this study the scientists recreated the chemical conditions of the early Earth.

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