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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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| 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 (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts) !
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| (...) For the 8t gears, try putting the pin into a beam, hold it in place with the back of [LDrawPart 3959], and pull on the gear. --Bram (20 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| "danny staple" <orionrobots@gmail.com> wrote in message news:3ec53b3f0508301...ail.com... (...) Oh you can get those out easily enough, all you need is a sharp object, like a table edge or metal ruler edge, poke the gear with axle/bush in a bit, by (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts)
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| (...) Minitalia bricks are like that! I'm glad that the headlight/washing machine brick has been redeemed! It's one of my faves. I can see why Gary doesn't care for it, it's indeed a poor substitute for a 1x1 window brick, but it's tres useful! (20 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| (...) I use something like that myself, but with some of the studless constructions - I have had the axle start to bend worryingly before the pins pop. I dont like sacrificing Lego though. another thing I hate is when an axle pin gets stuck, and (...) (20 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts)
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