Taking its name from the Greek word for "hand," this property was defined by Lord Kelvin.
Taking its name from the Greek word for "hand," this property was defined by Lord Kelvin. Kelvin's definition, endorsed by R. S. Cahn, V Prelog, and Sir Christopher Ingold, has become widely accepted. Kelvin applied this term to "any geometrical figure, or group of points... whose image is a plane mirror, ideally realized, cannot be brought to coincide with itself." FTP, name this chemical term, important for optical imagery, describing molecules not superimposable on their mirror images.
Taking its name from the Greek word for "hand," this property was defined by Lord Kelvin.
{chiral}ity [Accept any form of the word]