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Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Spiraly Stuff

I'm a new member of this little community and here is what I learnt today, the word for the way a material or effect or whatever spins is "chirality".

Left Handedness --> Left Chirality
Right Handedness --> Right Chiralty

This was in relation to circular polarisation of light, but it can also be applied to sugar molecules and many, many other things.


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