
Victor OstrovskiiKarpov Institute of Physical Chemistry | NIFKhI · Head of Sector of Thermodynamics and Calorimetry
Victor Ostrovskii
Dr. Victor E. Ostrovskii
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I am expert in physchemisry, author of experimental and instrumental works in thermodynamics, kinetics and mechanisms of adsorption and catalysis, polymerization, watering and drying, Oscillation theory of catalysis and theory of kinetics of catalysis, theory of natural gas formation, and (with E.A.Kadyshevich) theories of Life origination, Mitosis and replication, monochirality origination, racemization delay, aging and life prolongation, cosmology, Solar System formation and transformation.
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Упомянутый в Постере дефект массы (известный также как дефицит массы) был предсказан А. Эйнштейном в Специальной Теории Относительности формулой E = mc2. Экспериментальное подтверждение дефекта массы получено Ф. Астоном. Астон считал очевидным, что взаимному отталкиванию протонов в каждом из многопротонных атомных ядер должна противодействовать сил...
This abstract was submitted to the “Physical basis of forecasting heliogeophysical processes and events (“PROGNOSIS-2023”)” Symposium (Russia, Moscow, Troitsk, IZMIRAN, May 29-31, 2023), but was declined allegedly due to “inconsistency with the scope of the Symposium”. Meanwhile, the conference report V.E. Ostrovskii, E.A. Kadyshevich “PFO-CFO Theo...
References are added. This abstract was submitted to the “Physical basis of forecasting heliogeophysical processes and events (“PROGNOSIS-2023”)” Symposium (Russia, Moscow, Troitsk, IZMIRAN, May 29-31, 2023), but was declined due to “inconsistency with the scope of the Symposium”. Taking into account the urgency and scientific significance of the p...
Long since, people tried to solve the mystery of the way that led to the appearance and propagation of living entities. However, no harmonious understanding of this mystery existed, because neither the scientifically grounded source minerals nor the ambient conditions were proposed and because it was groundlessly taken that the process of living ma...
Our discoveries related to the problems of origination of microorganisms in deep methane deposits are considered: (1) In undisturbed highly-concentrated semi-liquid water/functional polymer systems, such as H2O/DNA, ordered matrix water/substrate structures similar to gas-hydrate structure II is thermodynamically preferable at rather low temperatur...
Приведены доказательства присутствия простейших живых существ, по крайней мере, в некоторых глубинных месторождениях углеводородов до применения технологии гидроразрыва пласта и доказательства наполнения месторождений в следующей временной последовательности: метан и вода → + гидрат метана → + нитрат- и фосфат-ионы → + простейшие живые существа и и...
The protuberance activity in the course of the 21st – 24th cycles will be analyzed in the context of the PFO-CFO Theory and the theoretical long-term prognoses of the solar activity and its effects on the Earth’s climatic conditions will be considered against the background of explanation of Phanerozoic climatic events.
The PFO-CFO Theory allowed us to connect each of nine most tragic Phanerozoic mass extinctions with quite definite solar events. On the basis of available observations and on the Theory, we think that the current warming will not be catastrophic for humanity as a biological species but that the coming epoch will be rich in solar events rather disag...
Original experiments and an analysis and generalization of available information allowed us to make the following discoveries:
(1) In undisturbed highly-concentrated semi-liquid H2O/functional polymer systems, such as H2O/DNA, ordered matrix water/substrate honeycomb structures similar to gas-hydrate structure II arise at rather low temperature aro...
We proposed and developed the PFO-CFO Theory of Solar System Formation and Transformation (PFO-CFO Theory) published and presented repeatedly over the world. It proceeds from the notion of space as the eternal and endless oscillating mass/energy (m/e) of a low density and, similarly to Rutherford and Soddy, finds that stars, including the Sun, shin...
The Oscillation Theory of Heterogeneous Catalysis (OTCAT) is aimed at solution of the current and future practical problems of the chemical industry: adequate description of the kinetics of industrial catalytic processes and simulation of industrial reactors on the basis of original notions, methods, and procedures.The theory was successfully appli...
The Oscillation Theory of Heterogeneous Catalysis (OTCAT) is aimed at solution of the current and future practical problems of the chemical industry: adequate description of the kinetics of industrial catalytic processes and simulation of reactors on the basis of original notions, methods, and procedures. The theory was successfully applied to kine...
This abstract was submitted to the International Symposium on Atmospheric Radiation and Dynamics (ISARD-2019) (St.-Petersburg - Peterhof, Russia, June 25-27, 2019) but was rejected «…because it doesn't correspond to the scope of the symposium and because of congestion of the program». Taking into account the topicality of the problem and its public...
This abstract was submitted to the International Symposium on Atmospheric Radiation and Dynamics (ISARD-2019) (St.-Petersburg - Peterhof, Russia, June 25-27, 2019) but was rejected «…because it doesn't correspond to the scope of the symposium and because of congestion of the program».
Taking into account the topicality of the problem and its publi...
Living matter origination and mass extinctions at the Earth in the context of the Life Origination Hydrate Theory and PFO-CFO Theory of Solar System Formation and Transformation: questions and answers. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
See full presentation by the address: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333756294_Life_Origination_...
Solar protuberances: their causes, properties, composition, sources of energy increasing with time, significance in the Solar System, and dangers for Earth's populations. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx See full presentation by the address: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333754868_Solar_protuberances_their_nature_function_and_potential_t...
Solar protuberances: their causes, properties, composition, sources of energy increasing with time, significance in the Solar System, and dangers for Earth's populations.
Living matter origination and mass extinctions at the Earth in the context of the Life Origination Hydrate Theory and PFO-CFO Theory of Solar System Formation and Transformation: questions and answers.
Mass extinctions in the past and hereafter understanding in the context of the progress in paleontology, cosmology, science on food, and engineering
NH3 production process significance for the development of the theory of catalysis and simulation of catalytic processes
An analysis of paleontological data on Phanerozoic living-matter mass extinctions in the context of the PFO-CFO Theory of Solar System Formation and Transformation leads to the conclusion that the extinctions are caused by solar events, namely, by extreme rather rare but predictable solar protuberances that contain, along with electron gas, radioac...
This work presents the method and results of calculations of those periods in the past and future Earth’s history for which, according to the PFO-CFO Theory of Solar System Formation and Transformation, mass extinctions are explainable and predictable as a consequence of an extremal solar activity. Paleontological studies revealed ten mass extincti...
The LOH-Theory considers the life origination process as a sequence of thermodynamically caused regular and inevitable chemical transformations regulated by universal physical and chemical laws, bears on experimental, thermodynamic, observation, and simulation researches, and allows its testing; the species diversity is caused by spatial and tempor...
According to the Life Origination Hydrate Theory (LOH-Theory), living matter originated underground or underseabed within the methane-hydrate honeycomb structure as a result of phosphate- and nitrate-ions diffusion into it and chemical interaction with methane. The species diversity is caused by the spatial and temporal repeatability of the process...
This work presents the method and results of calculations of those periods in the past and future Earth’s history for which, according to the PFO-CFO Theory of Solar System Formation and Transformation, mass extinctions are explainable and predictable as a consequence of an extremal solar activity. Paleontological studies revealed ten mass extincti...
New phenomenological Oscillation Theory of stationary heterogeneous CATalysis (OTCAT) is developed on the basis of a wide generalization of original calorimetric and kinetic studies and the available literature; it bears on the following principal conclusions: (1) the thermally stabilized metals and metal-oxides are homogeneous relative to the chem...
The Oscillation Theory of Stationary Heterogeneous Catalysis (OTCAT) is aimed at clarification of the essence of this phenomenon, identification of its real mechanisms, and development of the methods for the kinetic description and simulation of industrial processes. This presentation is devoted to the OTCAT justification and its validation on the...
This file represents a commentary to the entire set of our works related to the PFO-CFO Theory of Solar System Formation and Transformation, and I don't understand the grounds to do it inaccessible for the ResearchGate site members.
Согласно LOH-Theory, многообразие видов обусловлено главным образом пространственной и временной повторяемостью процессов возникновения живой материи в сходных, но не идентичных условиях, множественностью форм ДНК в каждом событии возникновения живой материи, изменениями в параметрах родительской среды, межвидовыми изменениями, а также, в меньшей с...
The proteins belonging to different organisms as well as the natural amino acids as incorporated into proteins occurring free in tissues and lymphatic fluids are, as a rule, levorotatory. This article contains a simple explanation of this structural discrimination and of the extremely slow racemization of natural organic substances. Chirality 00:00...
The paper represents a subsequent development of the Life Origination Hydrate Theory (LOH-Theory). It is shown that the natural amino-acids and primary proteins can originate together with DNAs in CH4-hydrate localizations from natural gas and niter; the thermodynamics and chemistry allow such reactions with no external energy sources.
Einstein's relativity: what is eternal, questionable, and erroneous in the starting points of this theory and in the subsequent conclusions from it? We discuss this question and propose a new time-expanded cosmologic theory, which uses some Einstein's statements and rejects other ones, leads to a new interpretation for equation, supplements it, and...
According to the conclusion of the theory, the so-called supernovas correspond to the explosions of the stellar radiation zone but not to those of entire stars and, after that, stars return to their initial state and their new life begin; the Sun is the tertiary star.
Not only DNAs, but amino-acids (AAs) and proteins can be obtained from natural gas, niter and phosphate.
The Life Origination Hydrate Theory (LOH-Theory) is the instrument for understanding the physical and chemical mechanisms applied by Nature for the living matter origination and propagation [1, 2]. We affirm that living matter originated as a result of thermodynamically caused chemical transformations, which are inevitable under definite ambient co...
(Invited lecture) It is proved that thermally stabilized crystalline metals and oxides are homogeneous relative to the chemisorption and catalytic activity of their surface centres [1–3], and the sources of erroneous notions on surface heterogeneity are revealed and specified [2, 4]. Surface homogeneity is a fundamental feature of thermally stabili...
The PFO–CFO Hypothesis of Solar System Formation allows realistic explanations of different phenomena which occur in the Earth’s atmosphere, on the Earth, on the Sun, and in the Solar System.
The Life Origination Hydrate Theory (the LOH-Theory) is the original one and has no common features with any other theory that considers mysterious origination of this phenomenon. This theory was presented at different steps of its development at about 30 international physical, chemical, thermodynamic, biological, geological, and specialized confe...
The problems of the nutrition optimization and life prolongation are considered in the context of the Life Origination Hydrate Theory and Mitosis and Replication Hydrate Theory. A new theoretical approach to these problems is proposed.
This work is aimed at detailed consideration of our Life Origination Hydrate Theory (LOH-Theory) and at its coordination with our Mitosis and Replication Hydrate Theory (MRH-Theory) and with related biological, physicochemical, and paleontological studies. . It contains a comprehensive explanation of the problem of nucleoside, DNA, and living-mater...
Size compatibility of the CH4-hydrate structure II and multi-component DNA fragments is confirmed by three-dimensional simulation; it is validation of the Life Origination Hydrate Theory (LOH-Theory).
Three-dimensional PC simulation of the size compatibility between the CH4-hydrate structure and different DNA fragments was performed in the context of the Life Origination Hydrate Theory (LOH-Theory). Complete compatibility was confirmed.
A new approach to understanding of the Universe nature and to the Solar System Formation mechanism: space is the small-concentration mass/energy, and stars are knots in it; stellar systems include physically formed objects (PFO) and chemically formed objects (CFO), all chemical elements of which originated from radioactive and non-radioactive pico-...
Till now, we formulated and developed the Life Origination Hydrate Theory (LOH-Theory) and Mitosis and Replication Hydrate Theory (MRH-Theory) as the instruments for understanding the physical and chemical mechanisms applied by Nature for the living matter origination and propagation. This work is aimed at coordination of these theories with the pa...
Life Origination Hydrate Theory (LOH-Theory) and Mitosis and Replication Hydrate Theory (MRH-Theory), both grounded on the notion of honeycomb gas-hydrate structures formation/destruction as the physicochemical phenomenon governing the DNA origination and replication, allow new approaches to the optimal nutrition and life prolongation problems.
Size compatibility of the CH 4 -hydrate structure II and multi-component DNA fragments is confirmed by three-dimensional simulation; it is validation of the Life Origination Hydrate Theory (LOH-Theory).
The cause of the DNA monochirality is discussed in the literature from its discovering. In this work, the simple explanation for this phenomenon is given.
The Life Origination Hydrate Theory (LOH-Theory) considers the life origination process as a sequence of thermodynamically caused regular and inevitable chemical transformations regulated by universal physical and chemical laws. The LOH-Theory bears on a number of experimental, thermodynamic, observation, and simulation researches. N-bases, riboses...
We develop the Life Origination Hydrate Theory (LOH-Theory) and Mitosis and Replication Hydrate Theory (MRH-Theory) as the instruments for understanding the physical and chemical mechanisms applied by Nature for the living matter origination and propagation. To reveal the laws of living-matter interaction with environment, we use the results of lon...
The stars are considered as the energy/mass space knots, where concentrated space converses into matter; all isotopes form by a unique mechanism outside stellar bodies on the basis of pico-drops of their substance as a result of exothermal radiation-chemical reactions, but not by the multi-step mechanism that was widely-taken before this work.
Three-dimensional simulation confirms the possibility of DNA housing and formation of DNA double helixes within hydrate structure II and, thus, counts in favor of the LOH-Hypothesis for any planet.
According to the PFO–CFO Hypothesis of Solar System Formation, the stellar radiation zone (RZ) contains an unstructured neutron (n0) – proton (p0) substance. Stars emit pico-drops (p-ds) of this substance from the RZ-bottom layer into the space with protuberances and, under a definite critical condition, with the imploded RZ material.
The n0/p0 rat...
The present state of the LOH- and MRH-hypotheses of living matter origination and reproduction is given.
The stars are considered as the energy/mass space knots, where energy converses into matter; all isotopes form by a unique mechanism outside stellar bodies on the basis of pico-drops of their substance as a result of exothermal radiation-chemical reactions.
• A new ideology and procedure for consideration of the contribution of inverse reactions to the analytic descriptions of the kinetics of heterogeneous catalytic processes (gross-reactions, GRs), which proceed with rate-determining steps (RDSs) and residual equilibrium portions (ExEqms), are proposed instead of the ordinary ideology and procedure t...
Homogeneity of thermally-stabilized surface-activity is stated by chemisorption-calorimetric measurements at films, powders, and supported catalysts in several decades by about 40 author groups for 20 gas/metal-oxide and 45 gas/metal systems and is confirmed by other techniques; a number of systems being studied repeatedly.
The causes of some earl...
Данная работа направлена на создание и опробирование методологии компьютерной проверки Гидратной гипотезы геохимического происхождения живой материи (Life Origination Hydrate Hypothesis, LOH-Hypothesis). Согласно данной гипотезе, нуклеиновые кислоты и прото-клетки возникли в сотовых структурах подземных или поддонных локализаций гидрата метана и в...
Согласно гипотезе, звезды представляют собой узлы в пространстве энергии/массы и никаких термоядерных реакций в них не происходит, а Солнечная Система (СС) сформировалась полностью на основе субстанции предсолнечной звезды (ПЗ), мало отличавшейся от современного Солнца, и все изотопы, присутствующие в СС, образовались по единому механизму из тех ра...
The Life Origination Hydrate hypothesis (LOH-hypothesis) presents a mechanism of living matter origination from simple mineral substances within natural underground or underseabed methane-hydrate matrixes with no external energy. The mechanism is well-founded chemically, thermodynamically, and logically and is applicable to any celestial body where...
To obtain a solution of the surface ‘‘homogeneity versus heterogeneity’’ problem, the results of microcalorimetric measurements of the dependences of the molar heats of chemisorption and chemabsorption of different gases on the amounts of chemisorbed or chemabsorbed gases in more than 20 gas/metal-oxide systems, in which the molar chemisorption hea...
The process of fine-crystal CuO reduction by successive small portions of H2 was studied through isothermal calorimetric, kinetic, adsorption-desorption, and stoichiometric measurements at 293-520 K and H2 pressures up to 100 Pa under conditions when equilibrium within the solid was achieved at any instant. The CuO studied was in the form of the co...
The paper develops the Life Origination Hydrate Hypothesis (LOH-hypothesis), according to which living-matter simplest elements (LMSEs, which are N-bases, riboses, nucleosides, nucleotides), DNA-and RNA-like molecules, amino-acids, and proto-cells repeatedly originated on the basis of thermodynamically controlled, natural, and inevitable processes...
The Life Origination Hydrate hypothesis (LOH-hypothesis) presents a mechanism of living matter origination from simple mineral substances within natural underground or underseabed methane-hydrate matrixes with no external energy. The mechanism is well-founded chemically, thermodynamically, and logically and is applicable to any celestial body where...
The Solar System formation PFO–CFO hypothesis is developed. An original mechanism of the birth of all chemical elements in the presolar-star vicinities is proposed and grounded.
The heterogeneous-catalysis oscillation theory given earlier by us only briefly is grounded and detailed. The oscillation theory bears on the following available conclusions made in the last decades: thermally-stabilized surfaces are homogeneous, chemisorbed layers are of island structure, and the rates of chemisorption are multifold higher than th...
It is shown that the DNA (and RNA) could be synthesized by Nature only within a mineral structural matrix and the chemical nature of this matrix is revealed; formation of the analogous mineral matrix in highly concentrated semi-liquid water solutions of some organic substances also supplies the processes that lead to the DNA replication.
The 90-year history of formulation, development, and disproof of the notions on catalytic and chemisorption heterogeneity of different centers at thermally stabilized surfaces of crystalline bodies of any definite chemical composition is considered. It is shown that, in spite of the fact that the analytical equations deduced analytically for cataly...
The notion on the reaction mechanisms, according to which heterogeneous catalytic processes proceed with rate-determining step (RDS) and equilibrium relative to the remaining portion of reactions, is applied to deduction of kinetic equation for the reactions of liquid-phase hydrogenation of benzene ring. The deduced kinetic equation is capable of d...
The markers that testify to the possibility of the living matter occurrence at exoplanets are considered in the context of the thermodynamically-grounded Life Origination Hydrate Hypothesis (LOH-hypothesis). Just formation of DNAs from minerals is the key factor that makes possible origination of living matter; proteins are the side products of DNA...
The advanced PFO–CFO hypothesis of planetary systems formation around Sun-like stars and, in particular, of Solar System (SS) formation is developed in an attempt to clarify some events over the period from the presolar star "middle age" to the SS formation. The hypothesis allows original explanations for the 11-and 22-year solar cycles, formation...
We develop the OK-hypothesis (Ostrovskii–Kadyshevich hypothesis). It covers the period from the Presolar Star up to origination of the cellular life at the Earth. The Life Origination Hydrate hypothesis (LOH-hypothesis) is a portion of the OK-hypothesis. When developing it, we adhere to the following principles. (1) The gross-scale processes in nat...
The markers that testify to the possibility for the living matter occurrence at exoplanets are considered in the context of the thermodynamically-grounded Life Origination Hydrate Hypothesis (LOH-hypothesis). Just formation of DNAs from minerals is the key factor that makes possible origination of living matter; proteins are the side products of DN...
It is shown that different functions with two and more fitted parameters are capable of approximate describing for a set of experimental data. This means that description of a set of experimental data by any equation that is deduced on the basis of some notion on the mechanism of a process under study does not mean that this mechanism is adequate t...
The Solar System formation PFO–CFO hypothesis is developed in the direction of creation of a phenomenological model focused on solution of a number of paradoxes and answering to a number of mysterious questions under the same cover. For explanation of the events and processes that occurred over the period from the middle ages of the pre-solar star...
It is shown that different functions with two and more fitted parameters are capable of approximate describing for a set of experimental data. This means that description of a set of experimental data by any equation that is deduced on the basis of some notion on the mechanism of a process under study does not mean that this mechanism is adequate t...
The Life origination hydrate hypothesis (LOH-Hypothesis) is shortly given, and eighteen questions on life origination, to which it is capable of answering are formulated.
What is the physicochemical mechanism of cell replication? This is one of the central
problems of our consideration. But is such a statement of the problem promising? May it be
that none general physicochemical mechanism for the phenomenon of multi-step selfreproduction of a cell exists and each step is controlled by some different specific article...
What is the mechanism of functioning of the surface of any thermally-stabilized catalyst in the course of any stationary catalytic process: does it work as a comprehensive whole or as a conglomerate of individual centers of different catalytic activities? A solution of this problem is important for revelation of the common principal features of the...
A hypothesis of formation of the Solar System on the basis of the presolar-star material with no contribution from other sources is developed. When developing the hypothesis, we are guided by the principles of: (1) simplicity (Nature is simple and doesn’t luxuriate in excesses); (2) repeatability of all natural events and phenomena with some indivi...
The logical and thermodynamic grounds of the Life Origination Hydrate Hypothesis (LOH-hypothesis) are described. According to the hypothesis, living matter originated under the Earth surface in the methane-hydrate structure from methane, niters, and phosphates.
We assume that the stars, during their before-explosion collapse, "spray" flows of neutron–proton (n–p) nanodrops, which transform quickly into radioactive atoms and give stable isotopes as a result of decays. As the star rotation accelerates, the nucleon number in the nanodrops increases. This assumption and available data on the half-lives and de...
We develop the original Life Origination Hydrate Hypothesis (LOH-hypothesis) of repeated origination of the living matter simplest elements (LMSEs) from CH4 (or other CH4 -hydrocarbon), niter, and phosphate under the Earth's surface or seabed within honeycomb structures of hydrocarbon hydrates. The LOH-hypothesis gives a new possibility for underst...
Characteristics of Cr2O3 as an adsorbent and as a catalyst of propane dehydrogenation by carbon dioxide are studied by adsorption and calorimetric techniques and by kinetic techniques, respectively. Carbon dioxide is applied as a dehydrating agent for a number of processes of the coalchemical industry. For the first time, the molar heats of chemiso...
According to the Life Origination Hydrate Hypothesis (LOH-hypothesis), living-matter simplest elements (N-bases, riboses, and nucleosides, and also nucleotides, DNA-and RNA-like molecules, amino acids, and protocells) originated and, possibly, originate in our days from CH4 , niters, and phosphates under the Earth's surface or seabed (and, perhaps,...
It is shown that, in spite of the fact that the analytical equations deduced analytically for catalytic kinetics and chemisorption equilibriums and rates on the basis of the notion on surface heterogeneity with arbitrarily-chosen parameters are sometimes capable of formalistic approximate describing experimental data sets, this does not mean that t...
We take that the processes that led to living-matter origination and to its subsequent development are natural, thermodynamically conditioned, and inevitable and all they are governed by universal physical and chemical laws. The hypothetical sequence of the processes that led to formation of protocells from methane, niter, and phosphate is as follo...
The review addresses the following issues. (1) The basic principles applied in recreating the mechanism of natural processes that took place in the distant past. (2) Available data on the abundance of methane hydrocarbons on Earth and other objects of the Solar System (SS). (3) Events that preceded the formation of the SS, including mechanisms of f...
Molar heats and rates of chemisorption and sorption of H2, O2, H2O, and CO2 at porous Cr2O3 over the range 293–673 K are studied at different degrees of filling of this oxide with the adsorbates. Improved
adsorption and calorimetric methods adapted for measurements of chemisorption of any adsorbate at samples filled with controlled amounts of other...
The Life Origination Hydrate Hypothesis (LOH-hypothesis) assuming repeated formation of living-matter simplest elements within honeycomb structures of hydrocarbon-hydrates from CH4 (or other hydrocarbon), niter, and phosphate under the Earth's surface or seabed is proposed. The following sequence of events led to living matter origination: niter di...
This paper relates to the earlier period of the development of the PFO-CFO hypothesis of Solar System Formation. The Solar System objects are subdivided into physically formed objects (PFO) and chemically formed objects (CFO). This statement was retained in the final variant of the hypothesis. Meanwhile, it was here taken, similarly to the widely d...
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It is possible that there is not much time for discussion. We would not like to play the role of the Thessalian witch in a cave near the vent of Vesuvius, who warned about the eruption of Vulca