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enantiomorphous

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Meaning

Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

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Crystal Data, Determinative Tables, ACA Monograph No. 5, American Crystallographic Association, 1963 These space groups are truly chiral (they each belong to the 11 enantiomorphous pairs). Source: Internet

Those with chiral symmetry do not have reflection symmetry and hence have two enantiomorphous forms which are reflections of each other. Source: Internet

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