The idea isn't that these building blocks are just passengers aboard meteorites, but that the chemistry inside asteroids and comets can actually manufacture the essential building blocks of biology.

该想法并不是认为这些结构单元只是搭乘陨石的乘客，而是小行星和彗星中的化学成分实际上可以制造生物的结构单元。

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The trio made outstanding contributions in organic chemistry, a field whose basis is carbon, one of the essential atoms of life and also of innumerable industrial synthetics.

三位科学家为有机化学做出了杰出的贡献，有机化学是一个基于碳原子的领域，而碳原子是生活中和无数工业合成制品中必不可少的原子之一。

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Such activity is essential to life as we know it, because it helps enable complex chemistry and recycles substances like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which keeps Earth warm.

我们知道，这样的板块活动对生命形成来说必不可少，它不仅有助于产生复杂化学过程，而且促使物质循环，比如释放二氧化碳进入大气层，使得地球保持温暖。

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The filmmaker said more money should be put into ocean science - and that it was essential to explore the biology and the chemistry of the deepsea.

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"Distillation fulfilled a poetic side in me, I very much felt there was poetry in the chemistry between the fire and the plant to produce essential oils, " he told CNN.

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Turin identifies the "official birthday of fragrance chemistry" as the discovery of the synthetic simulation of coumarin, an essential component of the tonka bean, prized for its sweet, nutty and smoky fragrance, in 1868.

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