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Definition of Chirality

1. [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Chirality

1. The chemical version of left-handed and right-handed. While some molecules have the same atoms tied up in the same way, they are not physically the same because of their orientation. Such a chemical is called a chiral compound, and the two (or more) forms are called enantiomers (or optical isomers) of each other. Nearly all of the molecules that make up living systems are chiral. (05 Jan 1998)

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Literary usage of Chirality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light by William Thomson Kelvin (1904)
"13 above), essentially has chirality because each constituent tetrahedron, if wholly scalene, has chirality*. I should like to have explained to you how a ..."

2. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1907)
"This change in the habit of chemical thought has no doubt been greatly 1 Called by Lord Kelvin "chirality. ..."

3. The Molecular Tactics of a Crystal by William Thomson Kelvin (1894)
"I should like to have explained to you how a single or double homogeneous assemblage of points has essentially no chirality, and how three assemblages of ..."

4. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1609)
"They possess ' chirality' ; right-handed chirality in the case of the right hand, left-handed chirality in the case of the left hand. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"Certain it is that the crystalline molecule has a chiral configuration in every crystal which shows chirality in its crystalline form or which produces ..."

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