Studying the Properties of Hot Mineral Water to Sustain the Organic Forms of Life by IR, NES and DNES Methods

Abstract

We studied the composition of water, its temperature and pH value in experiments with modelling of primary hydrosphere and possible conditions for origin of first organic forms of life in hot mineral water. For this aim the authors performed experiments with hot mineral and seawater from Bulgaria by IR- and DNES-spectroscopy. As model systems were used cactus juice of Echinopsis pachanoi and the Mediterranean jellyfish Cotylorhiza tuberculata. The reactions of condensation and dehydration in alkaline aqueous solutions with рН = 9–10, resulting in synthesis from separate molecules larger organic molecules as polymers and short polipeptides, were considered and scrutinized. It was shown that hot alkaline mineral water with temperature from +65 ⁰C to +95 ⁰C and the pH value from 9 to 11 is more suitable for the origination of life and living matter than other analyzed water samples. The pH value of seawater on the contrary is limited to the range of 7,5 to 8,4 units. Two common local maximums were observed in IR-spectra of jellyfish and seawater, which were more pronouncedly expressed in IR-spectra of jellyfish.

Keywords: deuterium, hydrosphere, evolution, origin of life, IR-spectrometry, DNES.