Enantiomers
Enantiomers
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I’m not smart enough to know this.
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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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Some molecules have a rotation that is centered on a chiral 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 dextrorotatory and spins to the right, or clockwise.
Edit: spelling errors lol
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Chirality, Motherfucker! Do you have it?
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Say racemic. Say racemic again motherfucker!
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Y not Samuel R Jackson¿
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Because the prefixes for optical rotation are dextro and levo :)
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because the meme was made by a chemist and not a physicist
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TIL chemists clearly got confused by D(ex)/S(in) and R(ight)/L(eft).
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Ooh, do Harry S. Truman vs Harry R. Truman next!
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<3
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