Researchers have long been trying to explain the origin of the ammonia that triggered the formation of the first biomolecules on Earth.

研究人员一直试图解释氨的来源，引起地球上第一个生物分子的形成。

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That’s too hot for the formation of ammonia clouds that would reflect some of that incoming radiation as they do on Jupiter.

在那里或许有些奇怪的化学成分是开普勒望远镜没能看到的。 这个温度太热了不能形成氨云，氨云可以反射一部分入射辐射，如木星上便是如此。

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Researchers have been trying to explain the origin of the ammonia that triggered the formation of the first biomolecules on Earth.

研究者们已经试图解释氨的来源，引起地球上第一个生物分子的形成。

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To their surprise, they discovered that the seed-formation rates for sulphuric acid and ammonia are between a tenth and a thousandth of those needed to account for the cloud seeding actually seen in the atmosphere.

ECONOMIST: Climate science (II)