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American Mineralogist; November-December 2009; v. 94; no. 11-12; p. 1556-1559; DOI: 10.2138/am.2009.3089
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A statistical reassessment of the evidence for the racemic distribution of quartz enantiomorphs

María Támara and Martin R. Preston*

Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Liverpool, 4 Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, U.K.

Correspondence: * E-mail: preston{at}liv.ac.uk

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.

Key Words: Enantiomorphic • quartz • homochirality • statistics






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