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chirality
Geometric property of an object which cannot be mapped to its mirror image by rotations and translations alone
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Geometric property of an object which cannot be mapped to its mirror image by rotations and translations alone
2 identifiers linking chirality across the web's reference databases
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In geometry, a figure is chiral if it is not identical to its mirror image, or, more precisely, if it cannot be mapped to its mirror image by rotations and translations alone. An object that is not chiral is said to be achiral.