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Abbreviations
- Abiogenesis:
-
1666, 1785, 1794
- Abiogenic continuums:
-
1636
- Adenosine phosphates:
-
1677, 1726
- Algae:
-
1658, 1662, 1685, 1768, 1795
- Alkanes:
-
1707, 1708
- Alpha-amino acids:
-
1595, 1724, 1763, 1764
- Amino acid adenylates:
-
1689, 1723, 1744
- Amino acids:
-
1596, 1597, 1603, 1643, 1646, 1647, 1667, 1672, 1676, 1693, 1694, 1715, 1719, 1725
- Ammonia:
-
647
- Apatite crystals:
-
1610, 1725, 1726
- Apollo:
-
11, 1590, 1593, 1599, 1608, 1609, 1615 1620, 1621, 1641, 1649, 1651, 1659, 1661 1667, 1671, 1673, 1679, 1680, 1682, 1683 1692, 1701, 1707, 1708, 1715, 1716, 1717 1719, 1721, 1733, 1734, 1736, 1741, 1742 1743, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1771
- Apollo:
-
12, 1661
- Bacteria:
-
1662
- Biochemical continuums:
-
1636
- Biochemical evolution:
-
1613
- Biosphere:
-
1604
- Breccia:
-
1620, 1621
- Carbides:
-
1615
- Carbohydrates:
-
1784
- Carbon compounds:
-
1608, 1609, 1615, 1641, 1651, 1671, 1692, 1695, 1721
- Carbor isctopes:
-
1601, 1682, 1683, 1690, 1739
- Carbonaceous chondrites:
-
1601, 1654, 1690, 1691
- Cells:
-
1642, 1703
- Chlorines:
-
1672
- Coacervates:
-
1732
- Condensation reactions:
-
1603, 1723
- Corycium enigmaticum:
-
1705
- Cosmic rays:
-
1783
- Cyanovinyl phosphate:
-
1631
- Cytochemical studies:
-
1697
- DNA:
-
1611
- Diamonds:
-
1792
- Enaminonitriles:
-
1632
- Exobiology:
-
1697, 1709, 1712, 1772
- Fatty acids:
-
1607, 1629, 1657, 1685, 1768, 1790
- Formaldehyde:
-
1647
- Gas chromatography:
-
1654, 1655, 1657, 1660, 1668, 1700, 1724, 1735, 1736
- Graphite:
-
1655, 1776, 1792
- Green River Shale:
-
1607, 1780
- Hydrocarbon gases:
-
1601
- Hydrocarbons:
-
1629, 1652, 1653, 1657, 1658, 1660, 1662, 1693, 1715, 1718, 1719, 1737, 1738, 1776, 1790
- Hydrogen cyanide:
-
1614
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West, M.W., Gill, E.D. & Ponnamperuma, C. Chemical evolution and the origin of life. Space Life Sciences 3, 293–303 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00928177
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