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Q.List out the major gases seems to be found in the primitive earth.

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Step 1. The chapter's account of the origin of life describes the primitive Earth as having 'no proper atmosphere' in the modern sense, but consisting mainly of ammonia, methane, hydrogen and water vapour.

Step 2. Critically, this early atmosphere was oxygen-free (a reducing atmosphere) — free O2 only appeared later, once photosynthetic organisms had evolved and multiplied.

Step 3. Under intense heat and UV radiation from the sun, water molecules split into hydrogen and oxygen; as the Earth cooled, water vapour condensed into rain, filling depressions to form the first oceans. …

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