A plastic film is stretched under polarized light. The colors reveal the different orientations of the chiral molecules in the film. This image is one of many demonstrations available on Chemistry Comes Alive!, Volume 5, CD-ROM for Organic and Biochemistry (published by JCE Software and described here).
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