Thalassogen
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Thalassogen
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In astronomy, a thalassogen denotes a substance capable of forming a planetary ocean. Thalassogens are not necessarily life sustaining, although most interest has been in the context of extraterrestrial life. The term was coined by Isaac Asimov in his essay "The Thalassogens", later published in his 1972 collection The Left Hand of the Electron. Said term was coined via the Ancient Greek prefix thalasso- ("sea") and the suffix -gen ("producer"). Elements making up thalassogens have to be relativ
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