Enantiomers

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• JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not smart enough to know this.

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s the title of the post: Enantiomer an identical chemical structure but mirrored. Think of how your hands are left and right. They’re identical in their structure, but are mirrored. Molecules can have the same thing and were denoted by L and D (but now use + and -)

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  • FoxyFerengi@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some molecules have a rotation that is centered on a chirality carbon atom and is named by the way the other atoms of the molecule rotate. There are some rules to it, but L is levorotatory and means it rotates to the left or counter-clockwise. D is dextroroatory and spins to the right, or clockwise.

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    • protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      These terms can describe any molecule, btw, doesn’t have to contain carbon

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• blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Chirality, Motherfucker! Do you have it?

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  • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Say racemic. Say racemic again motherfucker!

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• lemmy12369@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Y not Samuel R Jackson¿

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because the prefixes for optical rotation are dextro and levo :)

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  • stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    because the meme was made by a chemist and not a physicist

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• 211@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL chemists clearly got confused by D(ex)/S(in) and R(ight)/L(eft).

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• Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ooh, do Harry S. Truman vs Harry R. Truman next!

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Done.

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    • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      <3

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