Chemical prefix

Usage examples of ammono.

The ammono life would burn methane in nitrogen, producing ammonia and cyanogen, just as we burn sugars in oxygen and give off water and carbon dioxide.

And a number of other products which I expected as ammono analogues of terrestrial biochemicals.

Paula, there must have been ammono life here once, in the primeval oceans.

There must be some form of photosynthesis going on here: ammono plants, using solar energy to turn respiration products—ammonia and cyanogen—back to methane and nitrogen, closing the matter loops.

Now, this ammono animal is forced to take an EVA on the surface of its own planet.

It was odd, but she felt more embarrassed about her nudity in front of the thing Rosenberg had called an ammono than she had before Rosenberg.

The ammono stayed behind, still sawing industriously at Benacerraf's crap.

There was a greater density of the ammonos in the direction of the base of the cliffs.

The ammonos dug blades of grass, complete little plants, out of the ground.

The table-top body of the ammono would glide evenly over the surface, through seven or eight yards, until it found another place to sample.

I think it was the ammonos, after the sun got too hot for them, and they had to retreat.

The few ammonos here had their arms tucked under their carapaces, and rain puddled on the clear coatings over their backs.

Looking up, she could see the trail of ammonos dwindling into the mist and low cloud above, their carapaces dark stains against the dull grey-red surface of the ice cliffs.

But if Rosenberg was right, the ammonos, inside their chill spacesuits, were breathing out ammonia and cyanogen.

Slicing open one of those suits would not only kill the ammono, it would do the two of them a lot of damage too.