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 | | parity or space parity, in physics, quantity that refers to the relationship between an object or process and the image that it can produce in a mirror. |
 | | Parity is still conserved in the strong nuclear interactions and in the electromagnetic interactions. |
 | | Formally, parity, P, is a quantity that expresses the behavior of the wave function of any system of particles when the spatial coordinates x, y, z, of the wave function are reflected through the origin to -x, -y, -z (see quantum theory). |
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