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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 (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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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 (...) (20 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 (...) (20 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 (20 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. (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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