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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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Enantiomers exist when the molecules of the substances are mirror images but are not superimposable upon one another.
Finally, the issue of mutual recognition and intervisites is still a different issue, which is not always directly superimposable to those above.
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.
The crystal structure of hagfish insulin has also been determined and it is virtually superimposable with porcine insulin.
A compound containing two or more chiral centres, whose mirror images are superimposable because the molecule as a whole is symmetric.

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