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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 not identical to its mirror image, that is, it cannot be superposed onto it. 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. This difference in symmetry becomes obvious if someone attempts to shake the right hand of a person using his 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.".
- Chirality thumbnail Chirality_with_hands.svg?width=300.
- Chirality wikiPageID "32703814".
- Chirality wikiPageRevisionID "579851605".
- Chirality hasPhotoCollection Chirality.
- Chirality subject Category:Chirality.
- Chirality subject Category:Scientific_terminology.
- Chirality comment "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 not identical to its mirror image, that is, it cannot be superposed onto it. A chiral object and its mirror image are called enantiomorphs (Greek opposite forms) or, when referring to molecules, enantiomers.".
- Chirality label "Chirality".
- Chirality label "Chiralité".
- Chirality sameAs Chiralité.
- Chirality sameAs 카이랄성.
- Chirality sameAs m.0h3pwws.
- Chirality sameAs Q3734365.
- Chirality sameAs Q3734365.
- Chirality wasDerivedFrom Chirality?oldid=579851605.
- Chirality depiction Chirality_with_hands.svg.
- Chirality isPrimaryTopicOf Chirality.
