The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

DUMAS, in his well-known memoir on the gravimetric composition of water, which every student is taught, and rightly so, to regard as one of the classics of chemistry, states that of all analyses ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.