Diffusion and Organic Reactions in Mist

Basic scenario: An abundance of a simple Lipid is introduced to a large body of liquid (water for simplicity), there's some motion; wind or gravity or whatever, and the Lipids bump into one another. These Lipids have charge as you'd imagine and are hydrophilic at one end and hydrophobic at another and so they quickly set about forming a simple membrane. That's one of the basic jigsaw pieces in the puzzle of understanding cells (or at least as I interpret it and I hope I'm right, lol).

The question: Can this happen in a mist/fog/cloud/vapour (insert appropriate word)? Does diffusion within the cloud behave the same as a large body? Or am I way off?

The idea behind the question is that environmental factors mean that surface liquid is cooked off at the hottest times and the only hope of anything pooling as liquid comes either at night or in the shadow of great mountains when the temperature may be a little lower.

posted almost 5 years ago

Darius Arcturus‭

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