radiolysis
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It’s covered by the ancient Gawler Craton, and its iron and uranium mines point to the source rocks needed for both serpentinization and radiolysis.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 15, 2023
A second mechanism, radiolysis, may generate the rest.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 15, 2023
Now a study published in Astrobiology contends that radiolysis could have powered microbial life in the Martian subsurface.
From Scientific American • Aug. 12, 2021
They plugged these attributes into a computer model that simulated radiolysis to see how efficiently the process would have generated hydrogen gas and sulfates: chemical ingredients that can power the metabolism of underground bacteria.
From Scientific American • Aug. 12, 2021
Extrapolating these rates over geologically important periods of time and merging with modeled radiolysis data yields a predicted 1000-fold decrease in 100–atomic mass unit organic molecules in ∼650 million years.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 23, 2014
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