Re: Remember PRUSSIAN BLUE? We owe our very lives to them!
HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY
>Doktor Dark wrote:
>> Prussian blue linked to the origin of life
>>
>> A team of researchers from the Astrobiology Centre (INTA-CSIC) has
>> shown that hydrogen cyanide, urea and other substances considered
>> essential to the formation of the most basic biological molecules can
>> be obtained from the salt Prussian blue. In order to carry out this
>> study, published in the journal Chemistry & Biodiversity, the
>> scientists recreated the chemical conditions of the early Earth.
>
> You can get Prussic Acid from Prussian Blue. Imagine that.... ;)
>
>"In 1752 the French chemist Pierre J. Macquer made the important step of
>showing the Prussian blue could be reduced to a salt of iron, and a new
>acid, previously unknown, which could be used to reconstitute the dye. The
>new acid, hydrogen cyanide, first isolated from Prussian blue in pure form
>and characterized about 1783 by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele,
>was eventually given the name Blaus�ure (literally "Blue acid") because of
>its derivation from Prussian blue, and in English became known popularly as
>Prussic acid. Prussian blue would also give the name to the cyanide family
>of compounds, which are named from the Greek word for "blue," because they
>were first isolated from Prussian blue."
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_blue
>
> Apparently the astrobiology center is some 240 years out of date. =)
Figures you guys dig something like those white power bitches.
PRUSSIAN BLUE IS THE OFFICIAL BAND OF THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS. YOU
HEARD IT ON ALT.SLACK FIRST.
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