Recent content by HavNoFear

Because I'm trying to come up with a true alien biochemistry and ammonia is a possible substitute for water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry#Ammonia Making it combined with water kind of defeats the purpose.

I'm not following you. Do you mean you think it ought to be part liquid or part gas? I said, I was simplifying the chemical to focus on just one, and not several, because I'm trying to figure out if this is possible in its most basic form before I worry about combinations of chemicals and...

Well in this case, i think for ammonia to work as a basis for biochemistry, it needs to be in a liquid form. I was going on pure only to simplify the problem, because I'm not terribly certain how ammonia reacts with various other chemicals. I know exposing ammonia to oxygen results in the...

Writing a sci-fi story, thinking of making the alien species ammonia-based. Obviously there are problems with that. On Earth, ammonia is a liquid under cryogenic temperatures. I think -28 degree Fahrenheit is its boiling point. Obviously, this is too cold for a human to survive for very long...