12-09-2018, 09:45 AM
(12-09-2018, 06:38 AM)stevebowers Wrote: Ammonia reacts with free oxygen to create water and nitric oxide (NO), so an ammonia/oxygen mixture would be unstable. Biochemistry using liquid ammonia as a solvent would almost certainly be anaerobic.
As mentioned earlier, biology is not my area of focus in OA. However, out of curiosity, I did a quick bit of googling and turned up this page.
Would some kind of ammonia based ecology based using these sorts of processes be viable, in particular for the development of higher/more complex lifeforms possibly up to and including xenosophonts of some sort?
Todd