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Chemical version of handedness.
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| chirality |
(a noun) handedness; the property of an object being non-superposable on its mirror image
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also known as handedness, used to distinguish between the two ways in which filaments break symmetry. As illustrated below, their barbs point in different directions. High-resolution H-alpha image of filaments of differing chirality, observed 2002 October 30, 14:46 UT (USAF, ISOON image courtesy D. Neidig; from work of AA Pevtsov). Upper right and lower left corners: Dextral and sinistral patterns. Small filament in lower right corner exhibits both sinistral and dextral barbs. ...
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