The property of existing in left- and right-handed structural forms. See optical activity.
An object is chiral, or exhibits chirality, if it is distinguishable from its mirror image. For example the trefoil knot has left-handed and right-handed forms:
Left-handed trefoil
Right-handed trefoil
See also right-handed system.
The property of existing in left- and right-handed structural forms. See optical activity.
- Hastings, Wilfred. Keith (1930–2016)
- hatch
- Hatchett, Charles
- Hatch-Slack pathway
- Hat Creek Radio Observatory
- hatha-yoga
- Hathor
- Hatley–Pirbhai
- hat matrix
- Hatshepsut (1540–c.1481)
- Hauck, Frederick Hamilton (1941– )
- Haughey, Charles (1925–2006)
- Hauksbee, Francis
- Haumurian
- Hauptman, Herb Aaron
- Hauptsatz
- Hausa
- Hausdorff dimension
- Hausdorff, Felix (1868–1942)
- Hausdorff space
- Hausman test
- haustorium
- Haute-Provence Observatory
- Hauterivian
- Havel, Václav (1936–2011)