"protomolecule" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1991, Ezio Bussoletti, G. Strazzulla, Solid-state astrophysics: 27 June-7 July 1989, page 385",
          "text": "Molecular hydrogen is by the way a very difficult species to form in the gas phase by radiative association of H atoms, mainly because the protomolecule formed in this way is vibrationally highly excited and cannot get rid of the energy excess to enter inside the potential well and reach stability in a time short enough to avoid breaking.",
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          "ref": "1998, Julián Chela Flores, F. Raulin, Exobiology, page 287",
          "text": "This is a consequence of the fact that the protomolecule, just formed in a high vibrational level, has to release quickly (roughly in a time comparable with its vibrational period) an energy excess of about four and a half electronvolt.",
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          "ref": "2004, M. P. Bernstein, Space life sciences: steps toward origin(s) of life, page 6",
          "text": "As pointed out many years ago (see, for example, Duley and Williams, 1984), molecular hydrogen cannot form efficiently in the gas phase in the ISM, when H atoms are neutral and in the ground state, since three-body reactions are necessary to take out the excess energy quickly enough before the protomolecule falls apart.",
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          "ref": "1912, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record",
          "text": "It is most probable that all matter is simply the allotropic expression of one element and that the protomolecule is the union of the positively and negatively electrified etheric corpuscle.",
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          "ref": "1982, Canada Parlement House of Commons Standing Committee on Miscellaneous Estimates, Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence of the Standing Committee on Miscellaneous Estimates",
          "text": "Another example is the technique developed at NRC for synthesizing the insulin protomolecule.",
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          "text": "The local structure seen in Figure 3 may in fact be the entire structure of a fundamental melanin protomolecule.",
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