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.

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chirality

Noun

  1. The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are not identical.


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