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Glove (Chiral)

A glove is shown with its mirror reflection. They are not superimposable.

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File: MOVIES/TRAM09/0233215.MOV

Voiceover
A glove is shown along with its mirror reflection. (The mirror is removed and the mirror image is placed next to the original object.) The glove is chiral because it is nonsuperimposable with its mirror image.


Design, Text and Demonstrator:  
  Gary Trammell University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL 62794
Videographer/Editor:  
  Steve Dykema University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL 62794
Voice:  
  Margaret Biddle University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706
Audio Production:  
  Greg Minix University of Wisconsin - Madison, College of Engineering, Madison, WI 53706
  Jerrold J. Jacobsen University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706