Polytopes Without Mirror Symmetry
Many polytopes lack mirror symmetry, and in that sense form chiral polytopes. The simplest example is a scalene triangle.
It is possible for polytopes to have a high degree of symmetry, but yet to lack mirror symmetry; an example is the snub cube, which is vertex-transitive and chiral in this sense.
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