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conservation of parity

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noun

  1. the principle that the parity of the total wave function describing a system of elementary particles is conserved. In fact it is not conserved in weak interactions

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Smith College Chien-Shiung Wu, physicist, co-disprover of the famed law of the conservation of parity Sc.D.

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