Chirality, Motherfucker! Do you have it?
Enantiomers
Submitted 1 month ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to science_memes@mander.xyz
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blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 month ago
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Say racemic. Say racemic again motherfucker!
lemmy12369@midwest.social 1 month ago
Y not Samuel R Jackson¿
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Because the prefixes for optical rotation are dextro and levo :)
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
because the meme was made by a chemist and not a physicist
211@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
TIL chemists clearly got confused by D(ex)/S(in) and R(ight)/L(eft).
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Ooh, do Harry S. Truman vs Harry R. Truman next!
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 1 month ago
<3
JoShmoe@ani.social 1 month ago
I’m not smart enough to know this.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 -)
FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 1 month 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.
protist@mander.xyz 1 month ago
These terms can describe any molecule, btw, doesn’t have to contain carbon