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Study Reveals Early Earth’s Lifesaving Chemical Origins
10/4/2025
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- Earth formed its basic chemical makeup within three million years of the Solar System's birth.
- Early Earth lacked volatile organic compounds, water, and carbon-bearing compounds essential for life.
- A later event, possibly a collision with a volatile-rich body like Theia, delivered these elements.
- The University of Bern's study dated early Earth formation using manganese-53 isotopes.
