chiral
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- chirality noun
Etymology
Origin of chiral
1894; chir- < Greek cheír hand + -al 1; coined by Lord Kelvin
Example Sentences
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Based on the known properties of this material, they expected the twisted geometry to produce a special diode effect called nonreciprocal electrical transport, driven by the chiral shape at the nanoscale.
From Science Daily
By comparing helices of different sizes and measuring their behavior at various temperatures, the researchers traced the diode effect to uneven scattering of electrons along the curved, chiral walls of the devices.
From Science Daily
Nitta and Minoru Eto of Hiroshima University's WPI-SKCM2, a research center focused on knotted and chiral phenomena across different systems and scales, together with Yu Hamada of the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Germany, argue that a plausible solution might be hiding in a well-motivated extension of known physics.
From Science Daily
Many medicines are chiral, meaning they exist in two mirror-image forms -- similar to a pair of hands -- that can behave differently inside the body.
From Science Daily
Your hands are chiral body parts, because when placed over one another, they line up perfectly yet are shaped reflectively.
From Salon
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