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Vestnik Samarskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Estestvenno-Nauchnaya Seriya, 2010 Issue 4(78), Pages 208–218 (Mi vsgu187)

Biology

Energetics of the biosphere and its safety

Yu. P. Phrolov

Dept. of Biochemistry, Samara State University, Samara, 443011, Russia

Abstract: The primary sources of energy, providing the functioning of the biosphere, are radioactive decay and thermonuclear reactions. Great is their role in prebiological period and in biological evolution.

Keywords: biosphere, entropy, thermonuclear energy, radiation, evolution.

UDC: 575.8

Received: 10.02.2010
Revised: 10.02.2010



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