Timeline for What else is involved in "silicon based" life?
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| Jun 7, 2016 at 14:41 | comment | added | Anonymous | Venusian (e.g. 90 atm, 462C) would be a good environment. Sulfuric acid boils at 770C under 90 atm. For comparison, water boils at 279C under 90 atm. | |
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| Jun 2, 2016 at 20:42 | history | edited | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2016 at 20:20 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | @JDługosz I don't know; I can't read the cited paper. It does seem that at higher temperatures, though, things could work, if you could find another solvent (see my edit). | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 6:51 | comment | added | JDługosz | So the solvent is available at low temperature, but will the chemestry work at low temp. or be , well, frozen, without energy at the level of the bonds? Any metabolic process would boil the cytoplasm. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 22:55 | history | answered | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |