Chirality is incredibly simple on the surface, but the effects of chirality are incredibly complicated and important in the biological world.
Our world - our universe - favors one handed-ness over the other, and we sometimes get in big trouble when we interact with the wrong version of a molecule.
If you want to know more about just how right- or left-handed molecules rotate light waves, check out more from Steve Mould.
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