Labels:book | crt screen | lamp | monitor | tribute album | windowpane OCR: THE ORIGINAL ORIGIN OF LIFE EXPERIMENTIn the early 1950s Stanley Miller, working In the laboratory of Harold Urey at the University Chicago did the first experiment designed to clarify the chemical reactions that occurred on the primitive earth (right) in the flask at the bottom, he created an 'ocean' of water which he heated forcing water vapor to circulate (arrows) through the apparatus The flask at the top contained an "atmosphere' consisting of methane (CH4 ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2) and the circulating water vapor. Next he exposed the gases to a continuous electrical discharge ("lightning". causing the gases to interact Water-soluble products of those reactions then passed through condenser and dissolved in the mock ocean The experiment yielded many amino acids and enabled Miller to ...
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