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Searching for water vapor rather than just heat, van Breugel and his coauthors point out, could keep the insects from wasting their time on warm but nonliving objects such as dark rocks.
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Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2015
Phosphine, the argument goes, is not generally expected to be produced, or to survive for very long, in the abiotic (nonliving) chemistry anticipated for this part of Venus’s environment.
—Caleb A. Scharf, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2020
Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2015
Phosphine, the argument goes, is not generally expected to be produced, or to survive for very long, in the abiotic (nonliving) chemistry anticipated for this part of Venus’s environment.
—Caleb A. Scharf, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2020
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“Nonliving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonliving. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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