Spark for Life: Lightning Strikes Create Minerals Crucial for Early Organisms

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 13:07 in Physics & Chemistry

The high energy of a lightning strike creates an unusual form of phosphorus once common on primordial Earth and still used by many microbes today. [More]

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