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also see march 2017 molecule of the month by david goodsell. | |||
<!-- Mechanistically, the propensity of the electrons to spin in one direction or the other is affected by a local magnetic field, which is in this case primarily determined by the nuclear spins of several <scene name='58/585079/1u3d_magnet/22'>key nitrogen and hydrogen atoms</scene> (naming, as in fig. 5 of Schulten et al., 2007), the current spin state of the entangled electrons, '''and the external magnetic field (emanating from earth)'''. Only when the line between FAD and trp324 is parallel to the line connecting the north and south poles, is the earth's (external) magnetic field biasing the electrons spins to the same direction (parallel;triplet) spinning. Otherwise, the nuclear spins are the main determinants, and the the spins are approximately equivalently likely to be in the same or opposite directions. --> | <!-- Mechanistically, the propensity of the electrons to spin in one direction or the other is affected by a local magnetic field, which is in this case primarily determined by the nuclear spins of several <scene name='58/585079/1u3d_magnet/22'>key nitrogen and hydrogen atoms</scene> (naming, as in fig. 5 of Schulten et al., 2007), the current spin state of the entangled electrons, '''and the external magnetic field (emanating from earth)'''. Only when the line between FAD and trp324 is parallel to the line connecting the north and south poles, is the earth's (external) magnetic field biasing the electrons spins to the same direction (parallel;triplet) spinning. Otherwise, the nuclear spins are the main determinants, and the the spins are approximately equivalently likely to be in the same or opposite directions. --> | ||