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Chapter 5: Q31f. (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

(f)

Short Answer

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A snowflake is not 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 position of the mirror.

As we can see, snowflakes have superimposable mirror images. Hence, Snowflakes are not chiral.

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