define the term chirality . give two example
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A compound is said to be chiral if it exists in two stereoisomeric forms which are non-superimposable mirror images of each other. ... For example, butan-2-ol is a chiral compound because it exists in two stereoisomers which are non-superimposable mirror images of each other.
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chemistry, a molecule or ion is called chiral (/kaɪˈræl/) if it cannot be superposed on its mirror image by any combination of rotations and translations. This geometric property is called chirality. ... In chiral organic compounds, a stereocenter is often an asymmetric carbon.
In mathematics, a figure is chiral (and said to have chirality) if it cannot be mapped to its mirror image by rotations and translations alone. For example, a right shoe is different from a left shoe, and clockwise is different from anticlockwise. See for a full mathematical definition.
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don't know what to give because it is in both chem. and mat