Define handedness in chemistry
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Handedness or Chirality is defined as the geometric configuration of the ions or molecules of a carbon compound.
The mirror images of these chiral molecules are termed as enantiomers that are not superimposable on the actual chiral molecules or ions.
Chirality may be either right-handed or left-handed, as per the structural configuration of the molecule.
There are some objects that are made with chiral molecules, like the golf clubs, shoes, gloves and scissors that are available in pairs; for which the left parts cannot be used as the right ones.
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Handedness definitions
The structural property of an asymmetrical molecule or object which has the mirror-image structure of another molecule or object. ... (chemistry, physics) The property that distinguishes an asymmetric object from its mirror image.