Supernova antineutrino interactions cause chiral symmetry breaking and possibly homochiral biomaterials for life

Chirality

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Cline, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antineutrinos; Homochirality; Supernova II

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; DNA; RNA;

ASTRONOMY; CHIRALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COSMIC RADIATION; DNA STRUCTURE; NEUTRINO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SPACE;

ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; METEOROIDS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 21844465919     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.20142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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