Prediction of the Maximum Temperature for Life Based on the Stability of Metabolites to Decomposition in Water
The components of life must survive in a cell long enough to perform their function in that cell. Because the rate of attack by water increases with temperature, we can, in principle, predict a maximum temperature above which an active terrestrial metabolism cannot function by analysis of the decomp...
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MDPI AG
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98186 |