Interpretation:The mirror images of the capital letters in the English needs to be drawn. The reason for the symmetrical objects not having mirror image isomers needs to be explained.
Concept Introduction:When mirror image of one letter is covers the letter completely then it is known as superimposable.
Explanation of Solution
The mirror image of capital letters in the English alphabets is represented as follows:
From above representation, it is clear that alphabets A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W and Y are symmetrical thus, it has identical mirror image and it does not have mirror-image isomer. On the other hand, other alphabets are unsymmetrical thus; they have non-superimposable mirror images.
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