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enantiomers

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-002134

A pair of stereoisomers that are nonsuperimposable mirror images of each other analogous to human hands. They have identical physical properties except for rotation of polarized light and identical chemical properties except for reactions with optical active reagents.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-002134
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsooptical isomers; enantiomerism
TranslationsSpanish: enantiómeros
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-002134",
  "term": "enantiomers",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A pair of stereoisomers that are nonsuperimposable mirror images of each other analogous to human hands. They have identical physical properties except for rotation of polarized light and identical chemical properties except for reactions with optical active reagents.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "optical isomers",
    "enantiomerism"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "enantiómeros"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/enantiomers/"
}

Record 2,134 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.