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CHIRALITY
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According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Chirality[1] (/kaɪˈrælɪti/) is the property of an object not being identical to its mirror image. An object is chiral if it is not identical to its mirror image; that is, it cannot be superposed (not to be confused with superimposed) onto itself.
2 .sretsis dellac era egami rorrim sti dna tcejbo larihc A .niwt a sa hcus ,(egami rorrim sti otno desoprepus eb nac .e.i) tcejbo eht morf dehsiugnitsid eb tonnac egami rorrim sti fi (larihcihpma osla semitemos) larihca si tcejbo na ,ylesrevnoC
1The molecular tactics of a crystal, page 27, by William Thomson reads: “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. Two equal and similar right and left hands are homochirally similar. Equal and similar right and left hands are heterochirally similar…”[↑]
2mid-13c., suster, "female sibling, a female person in her relation to other children of the same parents," from Old English sweostor, swuster, Northumbrian soester "sister," or a Scandinavian cognate (Old Norse systir, Swedish syster, Danish søster),in any case from Proto-Germanic *swestr- (source also of Old Saxon swestar, Old Frisian swester, Middle Dutch suster, Dutch zuster, Old High German swester, German Schwester, Gothic swistar).[↑]
