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by refurb 4219 days ago
That's the definition of chirality. If you have a tetrahedral orientation of four different atoms around a center atom (e.g. carbon), there will exist a "right handed" and "left handed" version.

You can rotate the "left handed" version any way you want, but you won't be able to superimposed it on the "right handed" version.