If you have a source of H, like H2O vapour, then yes, you will generate a chemical "soup" of HCN and HCN Polymers (crude amino acids). You MUST have a "cold trap" or cold zone where the complex products can be concentrated, before being zapped apart again.
This is the famous "Urey experiment" where Urey and Miller cooked an ammonia atmosphere mix with electric sparks and local heating to make complex organics. Many other mixtures also work, but create different outcomes depending if the mix is overall reducing, oxidising, or neutral.
If the whole thing is always hot, everywhere, you are simulating the photosphere of a star. Not much stays together for long, and the main constituent is ionised plasma.
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You need H
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- Cosmic Rays & Climate Change
- Could Gamma radiation be used to destroy the chemical bonds between C & O2?
- Do we need a new board?
- re: I wonder if they looked at the Earth's atmosphere for Gamma rays.
- re: I wonder if they looked at the Earth's atmosphere for Gamma rays.
- The article you linked to gave the probable cause (n/t)
- Saw that coming a parsec off... (n/t)
- re: Cosmic Rays & Climate Change
- re: Cosmic Rays & Climate Change
- re: Cosmic Rays & Climate Change
- Taking the rays
- re: Taking the rays
- The dying Earth
- It's polar wander paths you need to be looking for.
- There is no evidence for significant slowing of the earth's rotatio, other than from tides
- re: The dying Earth
- Yes, but we can't do anything about what's going on out there. (n/t)
- The dying Earth
- re: Taking the rays
- Taking the rays
