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How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?

The Joy of Why

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How to Transform Cyanide Into Complex Compounds

The idea is that now you have the solid reservoir of syanite in the form of parasinit but now how do you access that to do chemistry? Right? So there are different scenarios, but basically, when you heat it up, so if there's an impact from a meteorite, or if you have lava flowing over it, you can cally transform the persyanide into a range of other compounds. And now you can start building up more complex molecules. Later on, things cool down, rain falls dissolves these compounds again into a shallow lake, a pond. Now we're a little closer to darwin's a warm little pond.

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