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View article: Magmatic immiscibility provides phosphate for prebiotic chemistry
Magmatic immiscibility provides phosphate for prebiotic chemistry Open
Phosphorus is essential for extant and nascent life. However, phosphate’s low terrestrial abundance and the poor aqueous solubility of phosphorus-bearing minerals pose major hurdles for prebiotic chemistry. Here, we show that silicate-phos…
View article: Magmatic immiscibility provides phosphate for prebiotic chemistry
Magmatic immiscibility provides phosphate for prebiotic chemistry Open
Phosphorus is essential for extant and nascent life. However, phosphate’s low terrestrial abundance and the poor aqueous solubility of phosphorus-bearing minerals pose major hurdles for prebiotic chemistry. Here, we show that silicate-phos…
View article: Immiscible basaltic glasses – a prebiotic phosphate source
Immiscible basaltic glasses – a prebiotic phosphate source Open
Phosphorus is an essential element of life, as observable in modern life forms that have perfected phosphorus accumulation and recycling. Prebiotic chemistry, on the other hand, was likely challenged by the low abundance and poor solubilit…
View article: Heat flows solubilize apatite to boost phosphate availability for prebiotic chemistry
Heat flows solubilize apatite to boost phosphate availability for prebiotic chemistry Open
Phosphorus is an essential building block of life, likely since its beginning. Despite this importance for prebiotic chemistry, phosphorus was scarce in Earth’s rock record and mainly bound in poorly soluble minerals, with the calcium-phos…
View article: Heat flows solubilize apatite to boost phosphate availability for prebiotic chemistry
Heat flows solubilize apatite to boost phosphate availability for prebiotic chemistry Open
Phosphorus is an essential building block of the most prominent biomolecules, such as polynucleic acids, and has likely played that role since the beginning of life. Despite this importance for prebiotic chemistry, phosphate could not be s…
View article: Geothermal non-equilibria as prebiotic selector
Geothermal non-equilibria as prebiotic selector Open
Life is an out-of-equilibrium process, pointing towards an emergence that must also have been decisively shaped and driven by the non-equilibrium systems present 4 billion years ago. Rocks and their constituent phases likely played an esse…