On the Potential of Silicon as a Building Block for Life
Despite more than one hundred years of work on organosilicon chemistry, the basis for the plausibility of silicon-based life has never been systematically addressed nor objectively reviewed. We provide a comprehensive assessment of the possibility of silicon-based biochemistry, based on a review of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Life |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/10/6/84 |