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Science 1 May 1959:
Vol. 129. no. 3357, pp. 1221 - 1223
DOI: 10.1126/science.129.3357.1221-a
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Production of Spherules from Synthetic Proteinoid and Hot Water

SIDNEY W. Fox 1, KAORU HARADA 1, and JEAN KENDRICK 1

1 Oceanographic Institute and Chemistry Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee

When hot saturated solutions of thermal copolymers containing the 18 common amino acids are allowed to cool, huge numbers of uniform, microscopic, relatively firm, and elastic spherules separate. The place of this phenomenon in a comprehensive theory of original thermal generation of primordial living units is considered.


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