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Categories: Chirality, Stereochemistry, Pharmacology, Polarization (waves), Articles with short description
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chirality  achiral  Biological chirality  Chemical chirality  chiral
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In chemistry, a molecule or ion is called chiral if it cannot be superposed on its mirror image by any combination of rotations, translations, and some conformational changes. Wikipedia
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In chemistry, a molecule or ion is called chiral if it cannot be superposed on its mirror image by any combination of rotations, translations, and some conformational changes. Wikipedia
A property of molecules having a non-superimposable mirror image Wikipedia Disambiguation
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molecular property
chirality
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planar chirality
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chirality (chemistry)
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chirality
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achiral (chemistry), Biological chirality, Chemical chirality, chiral (chemistry), Chiral atom, Chiral chemistry, chiral compound, chiral compounds, chiral molecule, chiral molecules, Chirality (biology), D-form, enantiomerism, Enantiometer, enantiomorphic, Enatiomeric, L-form, L form, Left-handed protein, Left handed molecule, Left handed molecules, Left Handed protein, optical isomer, optical isomerism, optical isomers, Psuedochiral, Psuedochirality, Right-handed protein, Right handed molecule, Right handed molecules, Right Handed protein
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enantiomerism

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