chirality

Term: chirality (adj chiral)

Literally meaning: “ handedness”

Origin: Anc Greek

χειρ/chir(=hand)

Coined/History

In 1904 by physicist and enginee Lord Kelvin (William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, 1824 –1907 who stated:

I call any geometrical figure, or group of points, 'chiral', and say that it has chirality if its image in a plane mirror, ideally realized, cannot be brought to coincide with itself.

Definition

Chirality is the property of an object that exhibits a left- and right-handed versions (oppositions) like human hands.