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- From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan)
- Subject: Re: Fractional State Hydrogen Atoms
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 03:15:10 GMT
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- J_FARRELL@acad.fandm.edu writes:
- >As far as we can tell they [hydrinoes] do not represent a biological hazard.
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- This can only be true, I would think, if they were essentially chemically
- inert below temperatures hostile to lifeforms. Much of biological chemistry
- involves the structures of molecules, and the size of the constituent
- atoms has a strong influence on such structural alignment. Thus a smaller
- hydrogen atom would certainly muck up biological chemistry if it had similar
- chemical properties to its larger cousin.
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