Question

How can both clay and ice crystals enhance chemical reactions necessary to form complex organic molecules?

	A.	Both have highly reactive surfaces that help to lower the energy of activation for reactions that form complex organic molecules.
	B.	Both trap the water needed in reactions that result in organic molecules.
	C.	Both have the necessary elements to form amino acids.
	D.	Both have microscopic spaces that help to concentrate reagents, facilitating reactions involving those reagents.

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Both have microscopic spaces that help to concentrate reagents, facilitating reactions involving those reagents.

Clay minerals are aluminosilicates. Most of them are classified as phyllosilicates, having layered structures comprising tetrahedral silicate and octahedral aluminate sheets. The cation exchange capacity, intercalation, and swelling properties make smectite clays unique and are important factors in their activity for various reactions of organic molecules. low water contents behave as acids. Cation-exchanged montmorillonites act as strong Bronsted acids, where the reactive protons are derived from the dissociation of hydrated water molecules because of polarization by exchangeable cations.

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