Kanji 鏡 mirror, speculum, barrel-head Related words 光こう 学がく 異い 性せい 体たい 光学異性体 is a broader term for optical isomers, which includes enantiomers and diastereomers. 鏡像体 specifically refers to enantiomers, which are non-superimposable mirror images.
ジアステレオマー ジアステレオマー (diastereomer) refers to stereoisomers that are not mirror images, unlike 鏡像体 which are mirror-image isomers.
Etymology Compound of 鏡像 (mirror image) and 体 (body, form). The term is a direct calque of the English 'mirror image form', referring to the mirror-image relationship of enantiomers.
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