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Caption: Scripps professor of marine chemistry Jeff Bada produces an electrical stark in an experimental apparatus to show how the atmospheric conditions during volcanic eruptions may have led to early life on Earth.
Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
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