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Title: Do enantiomers adsorb differently on oppositely magnetized surfaces
Plain: Experiments report that left-handed and right-handed versions of a molecule stick at different rates to a magnet depending on which way it points. If true, magnets could sort mirror-image molecules.
Precise: For chiral molecules (helical peptides, DNA oligomers, amino acids) adsorbing on perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic films, determine whether the initial adsorption rate differs between enantiomers for opposite magnetization directions by more than the combined experimental error, under controlled surface preparation and blinded magnetization direction. An answer is a yes or no with an effect size from independent replications.
Settled by: Independent multi-laboratory replication with controlled surfaces and blinded magnetization direction.
Kind: well-posed
Answer type: yes-no
References: (empty)
Literature status: contested
Status note: (empty)
Posed since: 2018