Low 13C-13C abundances in abiotic ethane

Koudai Taguchi; Alexis Gilbert; Barbara Sherwood Lollar; Thomas Giunta; Christopher J. Boreham; Qi Liu; Juske Horita; Yuichiro Ueno

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33538-9

Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Low 13C-13C abundances in abiotic ethane

Koudai Taguchi,
Alexis Gilbert,
Barbara Sherwood Lollar,
Thomas Giunta,
Christopher J. Boreham,
Qi Liu,
Juske Horita,
Yuichiro Ueno

Affiliations

Koudai Taguchi: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Alexis Gilbert: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Barbara Sherwood Lollar: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto
Thomas Giunta: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto
Christopher J. Boreham: Geoscience Australia
Qi Liu: State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Juske Horita: Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University
Yuichiro Ueno: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33538-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Distinguishing biotic compounds from abiotic ones is critical to the search for life in the universe. Here, the authors demonstrate that the abiotic ethane has distinctively low 13C-13C abundances compared to biotic ethane.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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