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TL;DR summary: The actual glass the lab flasks were made of mattered.

Miller's lab flasks were made of borosilicate glass and this caused more organic compounds to form than a more truly inert Teflon flask. But Earth's crust is over 90% silicates which could have similarly contributed to the formation of organic compounds in ancient pre-life earth.



It’s weird how this was the headline of the article but it’s only mentioned very briefly right at the end of the article with very little explanation.


It’s so that you get to read the whole thing. Granted, it’s written well, so the time reading it has been spent well.


I thought the more important fact was that the original experiment produced a bigger variety of aminos than previously thought, discovered by re-examining the original material with modern tech.




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