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Q. The ratio of methane, ammonia and hydrogen in Stanley Millers experiment was

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Stanley Miller and Harold Urey synthesized amino acid by passing an electric discharge in a mixture of ammonia $\left( NH _{3}\right)$, hydrogen $\left( H _{2}\right)$, water vapours $\left( H _{2} O \right)$ and methane $\left( CH _{4}\right)$. The ratio of $CH _{4}, NH _{3}$ and $H _{2}$ in large flask was $2: 1: 2$