chiral

• “The word chiral comes from the Greek word cheir, which means hand.”

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public

• “The term chiral is used to describe an object or molecule that cannot be superimposed on its mirror image, with the two objects being referred to as enantiomers.”

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• “The word chiral derives from the Greek word ceir (cheir), meaning hand.”

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001

• “The term chiral is derived from a word in ancient Greek, meaning hand.”

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975 - Presentation Speech

• “chiral" comes from the Greek meaning "hand" and signifies that the molecules can have two forms differing from one another as the right hand does from the left.”

  Press Release: The 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• “The phenomenon is known as the chiral magnetic effect - "chiral" means "distinguishing left from right," and it happens when you put the quark-gluon plasma in a magnetic field.”

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• “As a certain type of electrons, called chiral Dirac electrons, speed through the graphene, they can mimic the behavior of exotic subatomic particles, including quarks, which are studied by physicists using high-energy particle accelerators.”

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• “Soukoulis and his teammates, including Ames Laboratory assistant scientist Thomas Koschny, were the first to study the use of exotic materials known as chiral metamaterials as a way to harness the Casimir effect.”

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• “Such molecules are called "chiral" after the Greek work cheir meaning hand.”

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Presentation Speech

• “I'm not sure I understand "chiral" though, how does "handed" convey the idea of …”

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