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Your hands are identical twins that refuse to ever shake properly.
means The property of an object or molecule that makes it non-superimposable on its mirror image — like your left and right hands, which match but never quite line up.
from From Greek 'kheir,' meaning hand — the same root behind 'chiropractor' (hand-treatment) and 'chirography' (handwriting). The term was brought into chemistry in the late 19th century to describe molecules that exist in left- and right-handed mirror forms, borrowing the hand as the perfect everyday emblem of a shape that mirrors but never matches.
- origin
- from Greek cheir, meaning hand
- molecular stakes
- one mirror version smells like orange, other lemon
- drug danger
- thalidomide's twin molecule caused birth defects
- cosmic puzzle
- universe oddly prefers left-handed particles only