CHIRALITY
Chirality
A chiral molecule is a type of molecule that has a non-superposable mirror image. The feature that is most often the cause of chirality in molecules is the presence of an asymmetric carbon atom.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Chirality (chemistry)
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chirality
Noun
- The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are not identical.
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