Cosmic chirality both true and false

Chirality

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 957-958

  Barron, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

absolute enantioselection; axions; biological homochirality; chirality; CP violation; parity violation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXION; CHIRALITY; CONJUGATION; COSMOS; ELECTRON; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENANTIOMER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84870418844     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: 1520636X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.22106     Document Type: Article

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