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Originally Posted by Big Dave  You're forgetting one of the basic foundation principles of chemistry: elements and compounds have different chemical properties. Oxygen and carbon dioxide are simply not the same.
I would be highly surprised to see a methane-chlorine reaction. 1) There are very few situations in which both reactants could be properly synthesised and isolated to react, and 2) the reaction in a lab setting is remarkably violent. |
I know they are not the same, but I just wanted to exclude it so no one would come by and claim they are.
I just meant it might be possible to have something similar to the to us known photosynthesis as chlorine molecules do react on uv-ray influence and the radicals can react with methane in an exothermic reaction.
There is so much stuff floating around the universe and I think it was pure coincidence that it happened they way it actually has on earth.