Sentence examples for chirality from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, particle physics predicts that any particle that has chirality cannot have mass, so a massive chiral fermion is a contradiction in terms.

And, although the pharmacological significance of chirality was evident in the 1930s, separating the mixtures was until recently too painstaking to be practical.

The first would involve creating "mirror" humans recoding a person's DNA to switch the chirality, or handedness, of their entire body at the molecular level.

That is where chirality comes in.

That is why chirality rules living systems.

The phenomenon of handedness, or "chirality," is perhaps the most important phenomenon related to isomerism.

The simple test for chirality is the same for objects as it is for molecules: Is the object (or molecule) superimposable on its mirror image?

The chirality, or handedness, of molecules prevents certain reactions from taking place in chemistry and biophysics, Dr. Sandweiss noted, and affects what we can digest.

The research topics are formidable and include the cardinal virtue of ren in Confucius's "The Analects," "the origin of chirality (or handedness) in a prebiotic life," Ezra Pound's view of "The Canterbury Tales," and how to design a research trial using microbes transplanted from the human biome.

For organic chemists one critical challenge is the synthesis of molecules that have chirality that is, molecules that can exist in two structural forms (enantiomers) that, like right and left hands, are mirror images of each other.

In the evolutionary process, chirality handedness came to be a critical part of the lock-and-key fit.