Chirality

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So we urgently need a simple chirality criterion which is independent of an observer's manual skills. Fortunately, there is such a criterion, it is the object's symmetry. This is one of the reasons why we discussed symmetry in detail in the previous chapter.

Easily found, if present, are a mirror plane and a center of inversion. Check for chirality some objects containing a mirror plane or a center of inversion. Write down your observations.







 
 
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