How do chiral molecules differ from each other?
How does your left hand differ from your right hand? (Hopefully, you are not missing a finger!) Are they not the same?
Chiral molecules are structurally equivalent but not geometrically equivalent non-superposable mirror images. (Try shaking your identical twin's right hand with your left, or vice versa!)
In its most basic form, chirality—which is abundant in biological chemistry—depends on the presence of four distinct substituents at a carbon center, which is referred to as stereogenic or chiral carbon.
When achiral environments are present, chiral molecules behave exactly the same way (without regard to chirality or plane polarized light).
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Chiral molecules have mirror-image forms called enantiomers that are non-superimposable; these enantiomers interact differently with other chiral molecules, such as biological receptors, and have distinct biological effects. Chiral molecules are distinguished from one another by their arrangement of atoms in three-dimensional space, specifically by their chirality.
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When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.
When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.
When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.
When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.

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