Effects of Very Weak Magnetic Fields on Radical Pair Reformation

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 255-263

  Adair, Robert K ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical kinetics; Mechanisms; Radical pairs; Theoretical models

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; ELECTRON BOUND; ELF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; RADICAL PAIR; RECOMBINATION RATE; SINGLET STATE; THEORETICAL MODELING; THERMAL BATH; WEAK MAGNETIC FIELDS;

THERMAL NOISE;

HYDROGEN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEAT; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; MAGNETISM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEAT; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDING; MAGNETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032601723     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-186X(1999)20:4<255::AID-BEM6>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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