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Wollin and Ericson mixed the molecules of gases recently detected in the far reaches of space - ammonia, methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid - in various combinations. Then, keeping the gases completely free of water, the scientists exposed them to ultraviolet radiation and found that they combined to produce small quantities of some of the amino acids essential to life. Says Wollin: "Perhaps liquid ammonia, with its physical and chemical properties so similar to water, could serve as a solvent medium for waterless life...
...phone on Sunday. First as to homework, your reporter had access to Walter Sullivan's article in the N.Y. Times of Nov. 6, and he mentioned having seen it. Even a casual reading of this article would have avoided must of the errors. Secondly, a press release on formic acid dated Nov. 6 was on the AP and UP wires. Finally, an I.A.U. Circular was issued last week which contained the technical details of the formic acid discovery. Your reporter failed to read or failed to understand any of these...
...methyl alcohol (not ethyl alcohol) has been found toward the galactic center. The group responsible for this discovery includes Carl A. Gottlieb and A. E. Lilley of Harvard and H. E. Radford of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Dr. Radford supervised the all-important measurements of the laboratory frequencies. The formic acid discovery was made by a group headed by B. Zuckerman of the University of Maryland and including Gottlieb and Radford...
Ball announced the discovery on Friday of formic acid and ethyl alcohol-organic compounds Ball called "much more complex than any other molecules discovered in space...
Organic compounds are present in all living substances. Formic acid is contained in the urine, blood, and perspiration of humans...