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Which One of the Following Statements About Different Sizes of Oxygen

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Which one of the following statements about different sizes of oxygen cylinders is true?


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Chiral

Refers to objects, including molecules, that cannot be superimposed on their mirror image, resulting in pairs of enantiomers with potentially different biological activities.

Achiral

A term describing molecules that do not exhibit handedness; these molecules are identical to their mirror images.

Chiral Molecule

A molecule that cannot be superimposed on its mirror image, often possessing a stereocenter.

Enantiomer

One of two mirror-image forms of a chiral molecule, which cannot be superimposed on each other, similar to left and right hands.

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