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Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment

Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment

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Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment

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Full title

Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment

Publisher

Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Journal title

Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2008-10, Vol.322 (5900), p.404-404

Language

English

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Publisher

Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Contents

Miller's 1950s experiments used, besides the apparatus known in textbooks, one that generated a hot water mist in the spark flask, simulating a water vapor-rich volcanic eruption. We found the original extracts of this experiment in Miller's material and reanalyzed them. The volcanic apparatus produced a wider variety of amino acids than the classi...

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Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743505947

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743505947

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ISSN

0036-8075

E-ISSN

1095-9203

DOI

10.1126/science.1161527

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