Chemical evolution: Effect of high energy radiation
- 2 December 1976
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by Springer Nature in Discover Life
- Vol. 7 (4) , 349-354
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00927930
Abstract
Quantitative estimation — based on extrapolated data of radioactivity and reasonable assumptions about the radiolytic effect ofβ −-particles on amino acids — shows that an asymmetry greater than the statistical fluctuation in the number of L-, and D-amino acid molecules could have been produced byβ −-decay during chemical evolution.Keywords
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