What condition would have made the primitive atmosphere of Earth more conductive to the origin of life than?

We have seen evidence of life as early as $3.8$ billion years ago, approximately $700$ million years after formed. Finding earlier evidence is tricky... The oldest rocks we have are...

The DNA in particular can not exist in the presence of Oxygen. The name is de Oxi nucleic acid. That means no Oxygen. As DNA is essential to life the...

The award winning experiment of Miller and Urey postulated an early atmosphere of Hydrogen , Methane, Ammonia and Water vapor as proposed by Oparin and Haldane. By shooting an...

Metals are going to be the most conductive on . This is because of , where electrons are free and mobile. It also accounts for a relatively high boiling point....

$"Metallic bonding"$ results from the close packing of metal atoms, such that the atoms contribute a few of their to the overall lattice. These are delocalized, and not associated with...

The reason as to why metallic posses these properties is because the electrons do not stay in their assigned orbitals, they become delocalised and move all over the place....

In order to have a electrical conductivity, you must have free flowing electrons or a "sea of electrons", however, covalent bonds does not have it as it is the sharing...

Take a simple salt such as $NaCl$. We might represent this as $Na^+Cl^-$. Now in the solid state, each cation ($Na^+$) is directly bound to 6 anions ($Cl^-$), and vice...

The generic ionic solid is $MX$, and consists of equal number of $M^+$ and $X^-$ ions that are held together in a non-molecular, electrostatically bound lattice. The ions are not...

And is proposed to be responsible for (i) the malleability (the ability to be beaten into a sheet), and (ii) the ductility (the ability to be drawn into a wire)...