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chirality (chiral)
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chirality	has synonym chiral
	has definition Feature of fundamental particle physics that distinguishes left- from right-handed, showing that the universe is not fully left-right symmetric.
	has definition An expression of the basic handedness of nature. Fundamental theories of the elementary particles and of superstrings must possess chirality.
	is an instance of quantum quantity
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