article_snippet.sent: Both this molecule and the complex carbon-based molecule methyl cyanide simpler organic cousin hydrogen cyanide were identified in the cold outer reaches of the newly formed disc.
article_snippet.sent: The findings, reported in the journal Nature, reveal that there is enough methyl cyanide around MWC 480 to fill all of the Earth's oceans.
article_snippet.sent: Among complex organic molecules, cyanides - especially methyl cyanide - are important because cyanides - contain carbon-nitrogen bonds essential for the formation of amino acids, the components of proteins.
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists say there is enough methyl cyanide  to fill all of Earth's oceans.
  