Meteorites: Optical Activity in Organic Matter
- 21 October 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 154 (3747) , 377-380
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.154.3747.377
Abstract
A low-amplitude, positive, Cotton effect, centered at about 340 millimicrons, has been observed in organic extracts of samples from ordinary (noncarbonaceous) chondrites. Ancillary evidence renders it likely that this optical activity derived from contamination by biologic materials on Earth.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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