Chapter 5: Q31c. (page 148)
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
(c)
Short Answer
Expert verified
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.
The dashed line represents the mirror.
It is known that wine glass has a superimposable mirror image, hence it is not chiral.
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