Which statement about diastereomers is always true?
A) A mixture containing a pair of diastereomers in equal amounts will be optically inactive.
B) If a molecule can be described as a diastereomer of another molecule, it is chiral.
C) All diastereomers are achiral.
D) Every chiral molecule has at least one diastereomer.
E) A pair of diastereomers are not mirror images of one another.
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