In 1848, Louis Pasteur successfully segregated two types of crystals of double sodium-ammonium salt of tartaric acid, which were mirror images of each other. Back then, this was done manually through a painstaking process of observing the crystals under a microscope and utilizing a simple pair of tweezers. Following this seminal discovery, the field of stereochemistry has made great progress.
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