/oss/taxonomy/term/837/all en /oss/article/toxicity/mirror-image-insecticides <p>Everything in the world, except perhaps a vampire, has a mirror image. But mirror images are curious things. Imagine that you place a ping-pong ball in front of a mirror. If you could somehow pick up its image from behind the mirror, you would find it to be identical with, and exactly superimposable on the original. But now imagine that you hold your left hand in front of the mirror. The reflection you see is a right hand. Were you able to pick up this mirror image hand, you would not be able to superimpose it on the left hand.</p> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:18:40 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 1852 at /oss