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Ice and the origins of life on Earth

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The Chemical Symbol for Water

Ice can react with other elements to create organic molecules, for example methanol. If they have a carbon atom in them, they're complex organic molecules. When these organic molecules met the primordial soup, so the theory goes, it produced a chain reaction. A series of chemical reactions in which one change causes another. It was this chain reaction which created the first living cells and eventually humans.

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