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- Chirality abstract "Chirality /kaɪˈrælɪtiː/ is a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science. The word chirality is derived from the Greek, χειρ (kheir), "hand", a familiar chiral object.An object or a system is chiral if it is distinguishable from its mirror image; that is, it cannot be superposed onto it. Conversely, a mirror image of an achiral object, such as a sphere, cannot be distinguished from the object. A chiral object and its mirror image are called enantiomorphs (Greek opposite forms) or, when referring to molecules, enantiomers. A non-chiral object is called achiral (sometimes also amphichiral) and can be superposed on its mirror image.The term was first used by Lord Kelvin in 1893 in the second Robert Boyle Lecture at the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club which was published in 1894:I call any geometrical figure, or group of points, 'chiral', and say that it has chirality if its image in a plane mirror, ideally realized, cannot be brought to coincide with itself.Human hands are perhaps the most universally recognized example of chirality: The left hand is a non-superimposable mirror image of the right hand; no matter how the two hands are oriented, it is impossible for all the major features of both hands to coincide across all axes. This difference in symmetry becomes obvious if someone attempts to shake the right hand of a person using their left hand, or if a left-handed glove is placed on a right hand. In mathematics chirality is the property of a figure that is not identical to its mirror image.".
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- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Amphichiral_knot.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Amphidromus_perversus.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Amplitude.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Asymmetric_carbon.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Asymmetry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Axis_of_symmetry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Biochemistry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Category:Chirality.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Chiral_knot.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Circular_dichroism.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Dexterity.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Dirac_fermion.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Electric_field.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Electromagnetic_radiation.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Electromagnetic_wave.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Enantiomer.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Enantiomers.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Euclidean_vector.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Facial_asymmetry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Facial_symmetry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Figure-eight_knot_(mathematics).
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink File:Knot_table.svg.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Fine_motor_skill.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Gastropod.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Gastropoda.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Geometry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Greek_language.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Halibut.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Hand.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Handedness.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Hands.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Helix.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Inorganic_chemistry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Isomer.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Knot_(mathematics).
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Knot_theory.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Left-handed.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Mathematics.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Mirror_image.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Molecule.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Möbius_strip.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Organic_chemistry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Orientation_(geometry).
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Orientation_(mathematics).
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Orientation_(vector_space).
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Oxford_University_Junior_Scientific_Club.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Oxford_University_Scientific_Society.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Parity_(physics).
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Periodic_function.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Physical_chemistry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Plane_of_symmetry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Point_group.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Point_groups.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Polarization_(waves).
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Reflection_symmetry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Right-hand_rule.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Right-handed.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Boyle_Lecture.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Rotation_(mathematics).
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Rotational_symmetry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Sinistral_and_dextral.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Spin_(physics).
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Stereochemistry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Summer_flounder.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Supramolecular_chemistry.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Symmetry_group.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Tetris.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Tetromino.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Translation_(geometry).
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Trefoil_knot.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Unknot.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Wave_propagation.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:superposed.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelvin.
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- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink File:Circular.Polarization.Circularly.Polarized.Light_Right.Handed.Animation.305x190.255Colors.gif.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink File:Neptunea_-_links&rechts_gewonden.jpg.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink File:Orbifold_2X.2.svg.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLink File:Zwitterion-Alanine.png.
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText ""handedness"".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "Chiral".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "Chirality".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "achiral".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "chiral media".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "chiral".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "chiralities".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "chirality".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "configuration".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "dextral".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "enantiomorphous".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "handedness".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "left-handed".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "levorotatory".
- Chirality wikiPageWikiLinkText "orientation".