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What does superimposable mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of two objects) Able to be superimposed on each other
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The heating isobar for the transformed monolayers remained virtually superimposable on the curve for films that had experienced no rapid compression.
Diastereomers, on the other hand, are not superimposable and also are not mirror images.
Enantiomers exist when the molecules of the substances are mirror images but are not superimposable upon one another.
But related objects, a simple knife or a nail, for example, are superimposable on their mirror images and thus are not chiral.
Any object that is not superimposable onto its mirror image is chiral.
Yet the hands truly are not the same, for they are not superimposable.

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