DEFINITION of 'Sherman Antitrust Act'. Anti-monopoly U.S. legislation which attempted to increase economic competitiveness. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 made it illegal for companies to seek a monopoly on a product or service, or form cartels.Next Up.nti-monopoly U.S. legislation which attempted to increase economic competitiveness. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 made it illegal for companies to seek a monopoly on a product or service, or form cartels. Next Up.
Two enantiomers of a generic amino acid that is chiral. Chirality /kaÉªËraelÉªtiË/ kaÉªËrÃ¦lÉªtiË is a property of symmetry important in several branches of. Science the word chirality is derived from The, greek (ÏÎµÎ¹Ï), kheir, hand a familiar chiral. objectn object or a system is chiral if it is distinguishable from its mirror image; that is, it cannot be superposed onto it. Conversely, a mirror image of an achiral object, such as a sphere, cannot be distinguished from the object.
Not only can objects be chiral, molecules can be chiral, too. The feature that most often is the cause of chirality in a molecule is an asymmetric carbon. (Other features that cause chirality are relatively uncommon and are beyond the scope of this book.e will see that atoms other than carbon, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, can be chirality centersâwhen they are bonded to four different atoms or groups (Section 5.17). In other words, an asymmetric carbon is just one kind of chirality center. A chirality center also belongs to a broader group known as stereocenters.