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songbird wrote:

Billy wrote:
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That biological reactions are carried out in aqueous solutions, and that
vast amounts of water would allow divergent compounds a proximity to
each other with the chance of interacting?

Can you think of another crucible in which disparate amino acids, and
ions could interact and then multiply?

mud/clay/oils/bubbles/foams/salts

but some would say hydrothermal vents and crusts
of certain compounds may also be likely candidates.

i'm more in favor of foam/bubbles/oils/clays/muds.
i've seen them in action (building what used to be
called a skimmer in reef aquarium keeping as a
means to get organic materials out of the water,
pump a lot of bubbles through a column of water
and what comes to the top is gunk like the foam
that collects on beaches).


songbird

But the water is still the medium that allows for reactants to move
together, and assume the proper position for interaction, like an oxygen
atom dropping a proton [H3O+] as it rotates in to get a p-orbital look
at a Carbon nucleus as in a carboxylate ester.

Foam/bubbles/oils/clays/muds are just the results of having an aqueous
environment. Chunks don't really count, it's the ions and molecules with
charge separation that are important (in an aqueous solution).
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