single-handedness

Example Sentences

• "Recent experiments and observations, however, prove that single-handedness is merely the result of faulty or restricted education. Careful observations have shown that out of every hundred persons born into this world eighty are congenitally ambidextrous — that is to say, they will instinctively reach for an object with either hand"
• "But as we rise in the evolutionary scale of normal creatures, and as we exclude disease, ambidexterity progressively gives way to single-handedness, generally right-handedness."
• "One step in my method of correcting the stutterer is to build up a single-handedness or sidedness in the individual."
• "In the complexes, the direction and affinity of the hydroxy group for hydrogen bond toward the carboxy group of poly-12 may be the most important factor to control both the helical sense and an extent of the single-handedness, and therefore, the complexes with amino alcohols showed an intense ICD independent of the bulkiness of the substituent (R) with the same Cotton effect signs as the primary amines."
• "So not only does the hand of the amino acids dictate the hand of the helix they form, but more profoundly, single-handedness appears to be necessary for helices to form at all."
• "In scientific language this preferred single-handedness is referred to as homochirality; nature clearly exhibits this, but the exact origins of this trait remain shrouded at present, though various theories have been postulated to try to explain how it first arose."