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Re:Possible dinosaur DNA has been found by londons_explore on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:42PM (#22902776)
I believe the laws of thermodynamics do set bounds on the breakdown rate of molecules at a specific temperature...

No molecule is 100% stable... Every molecular bond will break eventually due to random thermal noise...

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Re:Possible dinosaur DNA has been found by andbberger on Saturday April 18, 2020 @06:12AM (#22906659)
Thermodynamics do not set any such bounds, but equilibrium statistical mechanics does describe temperature-dependent state transitions.
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