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Default Quantum tunneling allows for organic chemistry reactions in deepspace

Quantum tunneling allows for organic chemistry reactions in deep space
http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspi...in-deep-space/


Dwayne Heard of the University of Leeds, UK, and his colleagues
wondered if quantum tunneling would allow the hydroxyl molecules to
overcome that energy barrier by instead digging through it. When they
re-created in the lab a 63-K interstellar molecular gas cloud, they
found that methoxy did indeed form. Even more significantly, it
formed at a rate 50 times faster than the normal room-temperature
reaction.




 




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