In my textbook this week, I read the sentence, “Stereochemistry may seem esoteric, but chirality pervades our very existence” (Smith 182).  I thought this sentence was funny because my family has repeatedly joked about how difficult the word esoteric is to remember, which makes sense considering its definition. However, my textbook was also introducing me to a very neat, if very challenging, concept-chirality.

Chirality is a quality possessed when 2 things are not superimposable (in other words, when they cannot be laid on…

Sir Walter Scott once wrote,

  “Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,