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On the reported optical activity of amino acids in the Murchison meteorite (reply)

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    Michael H. Engel

  2. Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA

    Bartholomew Nagy

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Engel, M., Nagy, B. On the reported optical activity of amino acids in the Murchison meteorite (reply). Nature 301, 496–497 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/301496a0

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