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Molecules do not have to be large to be chiral. H Padleckas 07:36, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Chirality appears in many more contexts than those mentioned and the additional keywords mathematics, physics and chemistry (particularly latter two) are not explicit enough in relation to their current contents.
In short:
This briefly to hopefully spark some discussion on a concept all involved parties can agree upon and motivate further additions.
-- Cigno 22:08, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
the page on chirality assumes the fermions are massless and thereby avoids the discussion of the difference between chirality and helicity i think this is important and confusing and should be a primary topic on the page -john
i dont know what the copyright rules are here, but good references include Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics by David Griffiths pg 331-332 and the spinor review in arXiv:hep-ph/0505105 pg 17-21 -john
Article first states that an object is chiral if it "differs" from its mirror image; "such objects then... are mirror images of each other." ? If it differs from its mirror image, then they aren't mirror images, are they? Chirality seems to be defined as an "asymmetry property", doesn't it? Sorry but I'm much too busy to wade through the labrynthine complexities of the editing and dialog processes' instructions! Can you simplify that as well? (Anonymous)
This web page tells me something different than I was taught at university. Your example of a chiral centre has only single bonds. This means that it is completely unfixed. Single bonds are completely open to rotation, therefore they violate "non-superimposable mirror image". Poke the molecule and the bond will twirl. Only double bonds or benzene rings, for example, can be part of a chiral center. But, I am only an analytical chemist, I do not profess to know a huge amount about theory. I want to initiate discussion so that we can be sure that we are giving correct information to the "lay people". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Krista.klw ( talk • contribs) 21:45, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
The statement about forensic science astounded me and since there was no reference or link I tried searching the web for "chiral knot forensic". The two most relevant pages I found were:
Neither of these quite add up to support a link between chirality and left- or right-handedness. Is this "common knowledge" within the forensics community? I am a layman in this regard. What is Wikipedia's policy on such specialized knowledge? Before adding the "citation needed" template, I read the template page, including the part about not requiring sources for "common facts" (such as "The Moon orbits the Earth"), and skimmed the Wikipedia:Verifiability page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.29.15.138 ( talk) 23:11, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
This article was started as a stub on the subject of chirality; it got turned into a dab page (without any discussion that I can see) a while ago, so now we don't have anything general on the subject.
We really ought to have something to explain what chirality is, as has been suggested a couple of times already (see
above).
I suggest we do that now. There is a draft
here, to get the ball rolling. If the idea is acceptable we should move this to chirality (disambiguation) and put a topic article here.
Moonraker12 (
talk) 18:59, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
.
Thanks! There's been no objection this past week, and no demur from the discussion
here, so I'll
go ahead with it.
Moonraker12 (
talk) 14:06, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
PS No luck! seeems it needs to be an admin move.
Moonraker12 (
talk) 14:18, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Can the term simply apply to if people are left- or right-handed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.0.249.148 ( talk) 19:00, 14 May 2013 (UTC)