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Chirality ( Greek ''handedness'', derived from the Word Stem ''χειρ~, ch {Link without Title} ir~ - hand~'') is an asymmetry property important in several branches of science. An object or a system is called '''chiral''' if it differs from its Mirror Image . Such objects then come in two forms, which are mirror images of each other, and these pairs of mirror image objects are called '''enantiomorphs''' (Greek ''opposite forms'') or, when referring to molecules, '''enantiomers'''. A non-chiral object is called '''achiral''' (sometimes also '''amphichiral''').

Chirality is observed as:
  • Chirality (mathematics) of mathematical objects

  • Chirality (physics) of some subatomic particles

  • Chirality (chemistry) of some molecules

  • chirality of certain crystalline solids. Of the 230 existing Space Group s 65 are chiral. Sodium Chlorate is an Achiral ionic compound but crystallizes in a chiral P213 space group. An example of an achiral organic compound forming chiral crystals is Benzil . Racemic Acid is the racemic form of tartaric acid forming a mixture of two enantiomorphic crystals each form consisting of one of the two enantiomers.

  • the chirality of surfaces. Materials with bulk chirality can be cleaved exposing a chiral surface.

  • Chirality (manga) , a manga by Satoshi Urushihara




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