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To: thackney

“The F-T reaction typically happens at high pressure (40 atmospheres) and temperature (500o-840oF) in the presence of an iron catalyst.”

Funny. Sounds almost like the conditions you might expect to occur deep in the Earth’s crust, where we find plenty of petroleum products. We also know methane can be an abiotic product, since we find it on planets where there never was life.

Could abiotic methane just be undergoing a similar reaction naturally, to produce the more complex hydrocarbons?


7 posted on 02/19/2014 11:01:59 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
We also know methane can be an abiotic product, since we find it on planets where there never was life.

Understanding that Carbon and Hydrogen, in an Oxygen deficient environment, eventually combine to its lowest energy state of Methane and depending on the element ratio, percentages of ethane and the like, is far different than proving a abiotic PRODUCT from another process.

9 posted on 02/19/2014 11:06:05 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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