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Re:Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastli... by tshaddox on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @10:50AM (#40789364)
> Of course life on Titan is convinced there could never be life here. The third planet is a literal hell where it rains molten dihydrogen monoxide in an atmosphere of corrosive oxygen. Any life there would vaporize and oxidize instantly.

What are some of the chemicals that would vaporize and oxidize instantly in Earth’s atmosphere which this hypothetical Titan life could be made of?

Re:Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastli... by dexwiz on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @11:41AM (#40789974)
Almost any light hydrocarbon (4 carbons or smaller) vaporizes in the Earths atmosphere. Oxygen is pretty corrosive and we have all sorts of biological systems to slow or prevent this.
Re:Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastli... by gus_massa on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:02AM (#40800193)
> Any life there would vaporize and oxidize instantly.

I don't expect a fast oxydation that set them in flames, but I expect them to fell what you would feel if you take a bath in bleach.

To get a nice fire instantly on Earth, you need something like the substances in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoignition_temperature . The ones with low temperature are

Triethylborane −20 °C (−4 °F): It looks like something that you could find in Titan, but I don't remember reading about that. The structure is not so weird, and there are some similar molecules with nitrogen instead of boron. I don't remember massive natural production of organic molecules with boron, but boron chemistry is very weird and well above my chemistry level.

Silane 21 °C (70 °F): It would be more strange to have too many organic molecules with silicon.

Phosphorus (white) 34 °C (93 °F): I don't think it's stable enough to be acumulated naturay. It's too energetic and I expect it to react with some of the molecules in Titan.