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A statistical reassessment of the evidence for the racemic distribution of quartz enantiomorphs

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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 94 Issue 11-12

Abstract

A statistically based re-evaluation of the evidence for a racemic abundance of quartz enantiomers suggests that, while this hypothesis is valid at the global scale, local deviations occur such that at any given location either l- or d-quartz may predominate. Thus, the hypothesis that the homochirality of life may have come about through interactions with a dominant quartz enantiomer at a particular location cannot be discounted

Keywords: Enantiomorphic; quartz; homochirality; statistics
Received: 2008-9-12
Accepted: 2009-6-29
Published Online: 2015-4-1
Published in Print: 2009-11-1

© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2009.3089
Keywords for this article
Enantiomorphic; quartz; homochirality; statistics

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