Tag: cryogenic chemistry
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Titan’s Strange Chemistry: Water and Oil Could Mix Beneath Its Icy Surface
Introduction: A World Where Water Isn’t the Only Solvent Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has long fascinated scientists with its methane-rich atmosphere and liquid hydrocarbons on the surface. Recent discussions about exotic chemistry suggest that under the right conditions, even water and oil could interact in surprising ways on this icy world. While the surface remains…
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When Water Meets Oil: Titan’s Exotic Chemistry Opens a Solar System Frontier
The Big Idea: Water and Oil On Titan On Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, the cold surface and strange liquids create an environment that challenges our Earth-centric ideas about chemistry. Titan is famous for its methane-ethane lakes and rivers. But beneath the ice shell may lie a hidden reality: water ice behaving like rock, and an…