amphicheiral

Anglais

Étymologie

(Date à préciser) Dérivé de cheiral, avec le préfixe amphi-.

Adjectif

amphicheiral \Prononciation ?\

1. (Stéréochimie) Achiral.
   • My soul’s an amphicheiral knot
     Upon a liquid vortex wrought
     By Intellect, in the Unseen residing.
     And thine dost like a convict sit
     With marlinspike untwisting it
     Only to find its knottiness abiding;
     Since all the tools for its untying
     In four dimensioned space are lying,
     Wherein thy fancy intersperses
     Long avenues of universes,
     While Klein and Clifford fill the void
     With one finite unbounded homaloid,
     And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed. — (James Clerk Maxwell, “A Paradoxical Ode to Hermann Stoffkraft, Ph.D.”, 1878, cité par G. C., “The Life of Clerk Maxwell”, Nature, no. 680, vol. 27, 9 November 1882, p. 26-28)

Variantes

• amphichiral

Synonymes

• achiral