Bubble-Burst Synthesis of Ammonia, Amino Acids, and Urea Under Ambient, Catalyst-Free Conditions — mentioned by akshatjiwan

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:41:48 GMT

Very likely. The hot plasma generated would form oxides when it's cooled. I read a few papers a while back focussed around generating ammonia and other nitrogenous compounds. I can't find the link to the one I read but apparently other researchers are doing something simillar https://arxiv.org/html/2505.23850v1 In air bubbles NOx would be likely but it would probably lead to nitric acid production after reacting with water. Here's a paper by NASA that pretty much confirms your intuition https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20050215681/downloads/20...

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