Word: carbonation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stressed that life needs four elements to evolve: hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon...
Chemically, only carbon can form the extra-strong double bonds with other elements needed to make certain complex molecules, the building blocks of life...
Wald refuted the claim that silicon, not carbon, could be the basis of other life. Silicon cannot form chemical double bonds, and therefore, forms crystalline chains instead of discreet molecules...
...second half was a carbon copy of the first, with Connecticut outplayed, but Harvard outscored...
...says of the dozens of new molecules he has created in the past 11 years--most of which involve bonding carbon to different types of metals--"All have been interesting, and all have their own personality...