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THE following seems to me a perfectly possible, although purely hypothetical, way in which any amount of an optically active compound could be formed by chance chemical processes.
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STRONG, W. Stereochemistry and Vitalism. Nature 59, 53–54 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059053c0
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