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Chapter 5: Q31c. (page 148)

Which of the following objects are chiral?

(a) A basketball

(b) A fork

(c) A wine glass

(d) A golf club

(e) A spiral staircase

(f) A snowflake

(c)

Short Answer

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None of the objects are chiral

Step by step solution

01

Definition of chiral.

Chiral objects are those which have non-superimposable mirror images of each other.

02

Check Chirality.

The dashed line represents the mirror.

It is known that wine glass has a superimposable mirror image, hence it is not chiral.

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