Chauvinism of carbon   (translated from Italian)
Chauvinism of carbon In xenobiologia chauvinism of carbon it is the point of view according to which carbon it is necessarily the base of ...
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Carbon based life
Carbon based life Carbon forms the backbone of biology for all ... Earth. Complex molecules are made up of carbon bonded with other elements, especially oxygen, hydrogen ... that living organisms need, among others, and carbon is able to bond with all of ... life has been observed that is not carbon-based, it is sometimes assumed in ...
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Talk:Alternative biochemistry
... review archive here: Wikipedia:Peer_review/March_2005#Carbon_chauvinism. "Carbon Chauvinism" debate This is even better than radical ... MichaelTinkler This article gives the impression that 'carbon chauvinists' believe that carbon is the only possible basis for life ... on on Earth. I would think most 'carbon chauvinists' would hold that only carbon- ...
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Alternative biochemistry
... of such theories sometimes use the expression carbon chauvinism to disparage the assumption that organic compounds based on carbon, which form the basis of organic chemistry ... Up to this point, however, no non-carbon based life-form has been discovered. Silicon ... silicon has many similar chemical properties to carbon and is in the same periodic ...
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Talk:Intelligent design/Archive 16
... Guettarda 00:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC) carbon chauvinism In the criticism of fine-tuned universe ... forms of life are possible (see also carbon chauvinism). But the last link goes to alternative ... of such theories sometimes use the expression 'carbon chauvinism' to pejorate the assumption that ...
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EIG/C (Ial wiki)
... lectos caramel = caramello carat = carat caravan = caravana carbon = carbon carbon-copy = copia al (papiro) carbon carbon-dioxide = anhydrido carbonic carbon-paper = papiro ...
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Dictionario Romanico 021 (Romanica wiki)
... ITALIANO: PORTUGESE: sub caravançara, caravançarai UNDE: [edit] carbon n ANGLESE: 1. coal; 2. [Chem.] carbon; &hydrato de carbon carbohydrate; &carbon de ligno charcoal (= wood charred in a kiln); &minator de carbon (fossile) coal miner, collier ESPANIOL: FRANCESE: ...
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Aurelia and Blue Moon
... not all, extra-solar biology will be carbon based. This assumption is often referred to by critics as carbon chauvinism, as it may be possible for life ... to form that is not based on carbon. From this carbon-based hypothesis the scientific team assumed ...
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Anthropic principle
... must be consistent with our existence as carbon-based human beings at this particular time ... the requirement that there exist sites where carbon-based life can evolve and by the ... forms of life are possible (sometimes called "carbon chauvinism", see also alternative biochemistry). Furthermore, the range of constants allowing evolution of carbon-based life may be much less ...
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Antrópico principle   (translated from Spanish)
... beings and biological beings based on concrete carbon and place of the universe. Although the ... to develop to the life based on carbon and the fact that the Universe is ... has been labeled by some as carbonic chauvinism). Also usually one says that the rank ... allow the evolution of life based on carbon can much less be restricted of the ... The existence of the life based on carbon in this Universe is compatible with ...
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