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Thompson, W.R., Sagan, C. Atmospheric formation of organic heteropolymers from N2+CH4: Structural suggestions for amino acid and oligomer precursors. Origins Life Evol Biosphere 19, 503–504 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02388973
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