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In this report, we present results on the reaction of meteoritic phosphide minerals in the Seymchan meteorite in ultrapure water for 8 years. The ions produced during schreibersite corrosion (phosphite, hypophosphate, pyrophosphate, and phosphate) are stable and persistent in aqueous solution over this timescale. These results were also compared with the short-term corrosion reactions of the meteoritic mineral schreibersite\u2019s synthetic analog Fe3P in aqueous and non-aqueous solutions (ultrapure water and formamide). This finding suggests that the reduced-oxidation-state phosphorus (P) compounds including phosphite could be ubiquitous and stable on the early Earth over a long span of time and such compounds could be readily available on the early Earth.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/life12101591","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,12]],"date-time":"2022-10-12T20:53:29Z","timestamp":1665608009000},"page":"1591","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Results of an Eight-Year Extraction of Phosphorus Minerals within the Seymchan Meteorite"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Maheen","family":"Gull","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33584, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tian","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33584, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1280-9555","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Matthew A.","family":"Pasek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33584, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1845","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2006.1908","article-title":"The origin and emergence of life under impact bombardment","volume":"361","author":"Cockell","year":"2006","journal-title":"Philos. 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