Oxygen: A Matter of Life and Death
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The Chemistry Ihappens Across the Universe
We know that the chemistry is completely universal. We haven't actually managed to really see it beyond anywhere. And if you were to see oxygen t the spectral characteristics of oxygen out, in the atmospheres of some planet, that might be an indication that there's something very strange going on there. Because you have a chemically unstable atmosphere, then something needs to be keeping it like that. In our case, something which is pushing it away. Rememberntheis in equilibrium. It's death, chemical death. What you wan to be as is well away from that, in that exciting place fhere, a fires hap.
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