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LEGO and chirality Chirality is the property of an object that can not be superimposed on its mirror image. Examples includes both natural (biological) object such hands and cultural (technical) object such screws. A non-chiral (achiral) object can (...) (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts) !
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(...) Good stuff. Seems BrickWiki fodder! I would footnote that many paired parts are not TRULY enantiomers since the logos on the studs are not reversed. But that is a very unimportant footnote since they are functionally mirrored. (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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(...) snip (...) Your post reminds me of my painful memories of organic chemistry from university... Never thought it could be applicable to things other than molecules! :) -Bryan (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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(...) I will never look at my bricks the same.... what a great idea for a lesson plan, I have written it down to tell my sister (a secondary science teacher), I am a training early childhood so chirality isn't on the curriculum :(. Is there nothing (...) (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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(...) I find that animals and plants make some of the most interesting MOCs. There are families of plants whose leaves are chiral. There's one particular house plant that I can think of, but I can't remember its name. I think some types have leaves (...) (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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(...) Hi Anita, Thank you for your answer, it has made my day brighter as I like the ideas you talk about. - Being open minded as you are ("I will never look at my bricks the same") - Sharing ideas - LEGO as a smart toy and teaching tool Didier (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.edu)
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(...) There are also some DNA models (chiral superstructure) in Brickshelf : (URL) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.edu)
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(...) Funny. Actually, you apply chirality every day when you put your shoes on--you put the right shoe on the right foot and the left shoe on the left foot rather than vice versa. You just aren't thinking about the terminology when you do so. :) (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) LOL! I'm a chemist in my day job, so I made (URL) this>, but I didn't tackle tetrahedral shapes. (URL) Professor Dean Campbell of Bradley University teaches (URL) chemistry with LEGO> and has some tetrahedral shapes, though they are pretty (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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(...) And we would call them what..... Yes! Diastereomers :) (...) not to the pedantic (...) Chris (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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Hey, Awesome post! Larry has a point with the text on the studs, but when I teach symmetry and chirality and talk about everyday objects I always put in the caveat "this baseball has such-and-such symmetry properties, igoring all imperfections and (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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(...) [snip] (...) Nah, you don't have to use a new piece (URL) [1] Chris 1. (URL) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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(...) [snip] (...) Actually, you can model Lewis Structures* with LEGO too. I sent an article describing the LEGO-Lewis Model to the Journal of Chemical Education, but they rejected it :( A reviewer suggested that I re-write the "article" as an (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, lugnet.edu)
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(...) Excellent Chris, what did you use for the bonds and what did you use for the atoms. And were you also able to show double covalent bonds. (which is something that would be hard to show) I would love to read the article if you want. I get so (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, lugnet.edu)
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(...) Well, if you want to show the lone pair of electrons you could. (URL) is a link to a pdf. I didn't think that sending you a 385 kB e-mail message was sucha great idea:) I thought the model was a neat idea. Unfortunately, one of the reviewers (...) (19 years ago, 10-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, lugnet.edu)
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| | Builder's Block Crystal Lattice (Was Re: Chirality)
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(...) I was contemplating the above, while I was sorting a bunch of these: (URL) So I made a couple of chiral bits: (URL) Which go together to form a roughly cubic shape and its enantiomer: (URL) Yet they also apear to be achiral if you orient them (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(...) I was playing around with the same piece and made your smaller cubes a couple months back... I didn't take the next step to your sculpture though. Good work! God Bless, Nathan (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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Hey, Ley Does that pattern repeat beyond the cube that you show, or does it stop there? Just curious... James Wilson (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) If one had a supply of these cubes, yes they could be repeated in all three axes by using the 2x3 plates. Ah, to have more money and time... Peace and possibilities, Professor Whateverly (URL) (19 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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