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Glove (Chiral)

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

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