Chiral is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Chiral meaning
that exhibits chirality; as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix, or a molecule with L- and D- stereoisomers.
Using Chiral
- The main meaning on this page is: that exhibits chirality; as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix, or a molecule with L- and D- stereoisomers.
- In the example corpus, chiral often appears in combinations such as: the chiral, is chiral, in chiral.
Context around Chiral
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chiral
- In this selection, "chiral" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, chromatography, described, enable, chromatography, phases and liquid stand out and add context to how "chiral" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include actions on chiral fermions except and already described chiral liquid crystal. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chiral" sits close to words such as abdicate, adapters and adores, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chiral
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Chiral in chemistry refers to mirror images. (7 words)
Chiral chromatography Chiral chromatography involves the separation of stereoisomers. (9 words)
Chiral phases Schematic of ordering in chiral liquid crystal phases. (10 words)
A half-twist clockwise gives an embedding of the Möbius strip different from that of a half-twist counterclockwise – that is, as an embedded object in Euclidean space the Möbius strip is a chiral object with right- or left-handedness. (40 words)
Compactification does not produce group actions on chiral fermions except in very specific cases: the dimension of the total space must be 2 mod 8 and the G-index of the Dirac operator of the compact space must be nonzero. (40 words)
What’s more is that using the futuristic Chiral Network, Sam is able to fabricate loads of equipment — from motorcycles and bridges to mailboxes and charging stations — almost instantaneously. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
Chiral chromatography Chiral chromatography involves the separation of stereoisomers.
Chiral discotic phases, similar to the chiral nematic phase, are also known.
Chiral phases Schematic of ordering in chiral liquid crystal phases.
Effect of chirality As already described, chiral liquid-crystal molecules usually give rise to chiral mesophases.
To enable chiral separations to take place, either the mobile phase or the stationary phase must themselves be made chiral, giving differing affinities between the analytes.
Chiral in chemistry refers to mirror images.
For growth of the industries, it gives more focus on the ongoing trends and studies the recent developments in Chiral Chemicals market.
What’s more is that using the futuristic Chiral Network, Sam is able to fabricate loads of equipment — from motorcycles and bridges to mailboxes and charging stations — almost instantaneously.
Published in Physical Review Letters on Sept. 6, the research explores the effects of Kondo coupling and chiral spin liquids within specific lattice structures.
Planar chiral macrocycles have already been known to act as antibiotics and anticancer agents.
It becomes even more puzzling when you consider that chiral pairs behave identically chemically.
They calculated which chemical groups of the periodic table have elements that are more likely to coexist in a chiral crystal.
A half-twist clockwise gives an embedding of the Möbius strip different from that of a half-twist counterclockwise – that is, as an embedded object in Euclidean space the Möbius strip is a chiral object with right- or left-handedness.
An additional requirement is that the system not be racemic : a mixture of right- and left-handed molecules will cancel the chiral effect.
An interesting recent observation is of the formation of chiral mesophases from achiral LC molecules.
Chirality nomenclature Like many chiral molecules, the two stereoisomers of glyceraldehyde will gradually rotate the polarization direction of linearly polarized light as it passes through it, even in solution.
Chiral phases usually have a helical twisting of the molecules.
Chiral separation techniques may be employed to help distinguish the source of the drug, whether prescription amphetamine, prescription amphetamine prodrugs, (e.
Chiral smectic liquid crystals are used in ferroelectric LCDs which are fast-switching binary light modulators.
Compactification does not produce group actions on chiral fermions except in very specific cases: the dimension of the total space must be 2 mod 8 and the G-index of the Dirac operator of the compact space must be nonzero.
Common combinations with chiral
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the chiral 6×
- is chiral 6×
- in chiral 5×
- of chiral 3×
- chiral molecule 3×
- chiral chromatography 2×
- chiral phases 2×
- chiral mesophases 2×
- chiral pairs 2×
- are chiral 2×