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Re: Chirality
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lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts
Date: 
Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:12:38 GMT
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Mark Bellis wrote:

  
This calls for a new Lego piece - one with four axle receptors at the corners of a tetrahedron.

Mark

LOL! I’m a chemist in my day job, so I made this, but I didn’t tackle tetrahedral shapes.

Professor Dean Campbell of Bradley University teaches chemistry with LEGO and has some tetrahedral shapes, though they are pretty flimsy MOCs. Sometime I’ll have to go back and do a model of methane like I did the formaldehyde above.

Bruce



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  Re: Chirality
 
(...) 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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