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Does Titan have enough oxygen to allow the combustion of hydrocarbons?
by nayuki 6mo ago
Does Titan have enough oxygen to allow the combustion of hydrocarbons?
- bitmasher9 6mo agoThis would make a great plot point in a space opera.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> Does Titan have enough oxygen to allow the combustion of hydrocarbons? Titan's atmosphere "is a largely anoxic environment, with little oxygen to cause the termination of complex organic reactions" [1]. [1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10961852/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10961852/
- pjc50 6mo agoNo, otherwise the first meteorite to hit would have caused the whole thing to go up in a massive conflagration.