Another Natural Disaster Threatens The Earth! Nyiragongo Volcano in Congo May Soon Erupt

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Nyiragongo volcano in Congo is about to erupt. Volcanologists say that this disaster will be similar to that of Pompeii, inform the National Geographic.

Scientists warn that the over one million people living in the city of Goma, at the foot of the volcano, are in danger, since the eruption is only a matter of time.

Nyiragongo volcano is 3,500 meters above sea level dominating the region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Even if he is one of active volcanoes has been little studied by scientists.

Did you know that volcanoes have contributed to the spread of life on Earth

An experiment could have influenced demonstrate how volcanic eruptions and possible chemical reactions that take place in outer space for the creation of amino acids that led to the emergence of life on Earth.

The experiment was rediscovered more than 50 years after chemists Harold Urey and Stanley Miller tried to reproduce in detail the underlying conditions that led to the creation of an amino acid by exposing a gas mixture of the electric discharge of a flash.

Five years later, in 1958, Miller made another version of this experiment.This time, said initial mixture and a hydrogen sulphide gas is thrown into the atmosphere during volcanic eruptions. For reasons unknown, Miller has not verified the results of reactions of hydrogen sulfide. Nearly half a century later, a former student of Miller, Jeffrey Bada, marine chemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, found evidence in an old dusty cardboard box that was in Miller’s lab.

After Miller’s death in 2007, inherited the Bada Lab former teacher, including the old box. Thus, Jeffrey Bada Started in 1958 he resumed his studies using modern techniques of analysis. Bada and his team analyzed the reaction products resulting were kept in small vials, and thus found an abundance of promising molecules: four 23 amino acids and amines, another type of organic molecules.

The research team compared the amino acid produced by the experiment conducted in 1958 with those contained in a link type of carbon-rich meteorite. The fact that some acids corresponded, while others suggest that hydrogen sulfide has played an important role in the synthesis of amino acids in some environments in the Solar System, but not in others.

There is a theory that life on Earth arose from certain organic molecules coming from space, says LiveScience Stanford, a researcher at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. The question is about his crush on the role that researchers have had the molecules coming from space, and not their origin.

The entire work of researchers has been published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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