How to Use chiral in a Sentence

chiral

adjective

• The amino acids and sugars that make up our bodies are chiral.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2016
• Scientists now have an enzyme that doesn’t need a chiral world.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2014
• But the cross-chiral ribozyme binds based on the molecule’s shape rather than its sequence.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2016
• Sam will have to infiltrate a weapons factory or hunt massive chiral creatures.
  — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 July 2025
• Amino acids come in two mirror-image configurations, just like our left and right hands, called chiral forms.
  — Amirali Aghazadeh, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
• That occurs because the shape is chiral and cannot be transformed into its perfect mirror image.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2019
• The newest addition to the list is a chiral bose-liquid state, which scientists just observed for the first time.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• Typically, these are very small twisted metal wires that are also chiral.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2019
• Such chiral holograms could be used to defeat counterfeiters.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2016
• The corresponding non-chiral electrodes did not show the same behavior.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
• When electrons move through a chiral structure, the structure can favor one direction of electron spin over the other.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
• In the new study, the researchers coupled chiral liquid crystals with fluorescent dyes that emitted red, green, or blue light.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2023
• The drug also contained a chiral molecule that caused disastrous side effects in many babies.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 14 June 2017
• But instead of evaluating a chemical, the researchers plan to roast the microbes with beams of chiral electrons or muons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2020
• When objects appear different in the mirror, scientists call them chiral.
  — Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025
• The other route is the chiral vortical symmetry, which requires that the plasma be rotating.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2017
• Or did chemical and physical forces conspire to create chiral molecules before life arose?
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2016
• Many pharmaceutical compounds are enantiomers (which is the word for mutually chiral pairs).
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• Electrons with one spin orientation will move more efficiently across a chiral molecule in one direction than the other.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Many molecules important to biology and medicine are chiral, including amino acids and some drug molecules.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
• Three-dimensional light fields could provide a new way to probe these subtle differences because the fields themselves can have chiral, or handed, properties.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
• Not everyone counts these different chiral and polarization states as distinct particle types.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2026
• Earlier scientists had assumed that once the rearrangement began, any chiral information would be lost.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
• Like how your left glove fits only your left hand and your right glove your right hand, chiral molecules can interact only with other molecules of compatible handedness.
  — Kate Adamala, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
• To make the calculation possible, chiral effective field theory employs a math trick sometimes used in high school calculus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Dec. 2012
• Their chiral copper catalyst could offer a new way to steer CO₂ reduction toward useful carbon products.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
• But, strangely, the calculation that came closest used an oversimplified model of the nuclear force—not the chiral effective field theory.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• The formation and dissolution of these living chiral crystals is driven entirely by the embryos' development process.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2021
• Researchers highlighted that chiral molecules are asymmetric or non-superimposable on their mirror image.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
• One particularly promising application involves chiral molecules—molecules that come in two versions that are mirror images of each other, much like a person’s left and right hands.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026