chirality

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The direction is called the chirality (handedness) of the disk.

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  1. In optics, the power possessed by certain crystals and optically active substances of turning the plane of polarization of light to the right or left hand. The book is largely a new creation. It surveys a vast range, all the cognate subjects on which the author feels that he has something new to communicate — laws of diffusion of gases, transparency of the sky, detailed dynamics of optical chirality, motion of molecules through tether, etc. Nature, May 5, 1904, p. 5.

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  • The direction is called the chirality (handedness) of the disk. —  Channel Register
  • By being able to reliably alter and reproduce the chirality and polarity directions, this gives us four values: 0, 1, 2, or 3, corresponding to clockwise and anti-clockwise chirality, and up or down polarity. —  Channel Register
  • Many carbon-based molecules have a property called 'chirality'-they can exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other —  Latest Articles
  • The horrors of the thalidomide drug disaster resulted from this problem of chirality. —  Latest Articles
  • (PhysOrg. com) -- Researchers at the University of Arkansas have shown that changing the chirality, or direction of spin, of a nanoscale magnetic vortex creates an electric pulse, suggesting that such a pulse might be of use in creating computer memory and writing information. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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