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Chapter 5: Q. 31a (page 148)

Q 31 Which of the following objects are chiral?

(a) A basketball

(b) A fork

(c) A wine glass

(d) A golf club

(e) A spiral staircase

(f) A snowflake

Short Answer

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(a). None of the objects are chiral.

Step by step solution

01

Definition of chiral.

Chiral objects are those which have non superimposable mirror images of each other.

02

Check Chirality.

Dashed line represents the mirror.

As we can see, football has superimposable mirror images.

Hence, football is not chiral.

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