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In chemistry, isomerism in which the molecules in their configuration are related to one another like an object and its mirror image (enantiomers), and consequently are not superimposable; enantiomerism entails optical activity, both enantiomers rotating the plane of polarised light equally, but in opposite directions.
(05 Mar 2000)
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