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| 32 | 14 | It was not so View more quotes about close">close to the star as to be a ball of scalding rock nor so far as to be a frozen spheroid". |
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| 32 | 11 | "I never saw it, of course," he said. |
| 32 | 12 | "It was, of course, of a suitable size and distance from its star. |
| 32 | 13 | It was small enough to permit the escape of hydrogen, large enough to retain oxygen. |
| 32 | 14 | It was not so close to the star as to be a ball of scalding rock nor so far as to be a frozen spheroid". |
| 32 | 15 | "It maintained temperatures at which water could be in a liquid form". |
| 32 | 16 | "Yes," it said, "and the mechanisms, the atomic necessities, of chemical evolution were initiated, and the macromolecules and protocells, in time, were formed". |
| 32 | 17 | "Gases were exchanged, and the hydrogen-dominated atmosphere yielded to one in which free oxygen was a major component". |