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Chapter 5: Q31e. (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

(e)

Short Answer

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A spiral staircalse is chiral.

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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 position of the mirror.

As we can see, the spiral staircase has superimposable mirror images, hence spiral staircase is chiral.

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