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enantiomer
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enantiomer /en·an·tio·mer/ (en-an´te-o″mer) one of a pair of compounds having a mirror image relationship.
enantiomer,
(in physical science) one of the two nonsuperimposable mirror image forms of a chiral compound.

enantiomer [en-an´te-o″mer]
one of a pair of isomeric compounds whose molecular structures are mirror images of each other.


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After death, a chemical reaction called racemization changes L-enantiomers into right-handed D-enantiomers until a balance is reached.
 
 
 
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