Chirality

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A completely asymmetric object such as a snail-shell trivially does not contain a Sn and thus is chiral. In fact both right-handed and left-handed (very rare, so-called snails' kings) snail-shells are found in Nature.


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a right-handed snail-shell



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a left-handed snail-shell (hint)







 
 
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