Tag: Hydrogen cyanide
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Titan Chemistry Breakthrough: How Hydrogen Cyanide Forms Co-Crystals With Methane and Ethane
Titan’s Surprising Chemistry: A Break with ‘Like Dissolves Like’ Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has long captured scientists’ imaginations as a natural laboratory for studying chemistry under frigid conditions. Its surface temperatures hover around 90 kelvin, and its atmosphere is rich in nitrogen and methane — a combination that echoes estimates of Earth’s primordial atmosphere. A…
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Titan breaks ‘like dissolves like’ at ultra-cold temps
Titan’s Cold Chemistry Rewrites a Rule That Often Holds Molecules Apart Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, continues to intrigue scientists as a natural laboratory for prebiotic chemistry. Its frigid surface and thick atmosphere, rich in nitrogen and methane, resemble the conditions thought to exist on the young Earth. By studying Titan, researchers hope to uncover clues…
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Titan’s Surprising Chemistry Break: Polar and Nonpolar Substances Co-Crystallize in Frigid Seas
Titan’s Chemistry Breakthrough Stuns Planetary Scientists Tainting our understanding of chemistry’s limits, Titan — Saturn’s largest moon — has revealed a surprising way that chemistry can operate in extreme cold. A collaborative effort involving Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has shown that hydrogen cyanide, a highly polar molecule, can…