Dextrorotatory meaning

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Of or relating to an optically active substance that rotates the plane of polarized light to the right, or clockwise.

A dextrorotatory solution.

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Turning or circling to the right, in a clockwise direction.
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That turns the plane of polarized light to the right or clockwise.
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Relating to an optically active substance that rotates the plane of polarized light to the right, or clockwise (when looking toward the light source).

A dextrorotatory solution.

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Relating to a substance that causes dextrorotation.
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(chemistry, of an optically active compound or crystal) That rotates the plane of polarized light to the right, or clockwise.
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Origin of dextrorotatory

Dextrorotatory Sentence Examples

  • They are dextrorotatory, and the specific rotation is numerically greater than that of albumin; hence the proteids are, in general, dextrorotatory.

  • Aconitine (C33H45N013, according to Dunstan; C34H47NOH, according to Freund) is a crystalline base, soluble in alcohol, but very sparingly in water; its alcoholic solution is dextrorotatory, but its salts are laevorotatory.

  • The other alkaloids are distinguished from quinine thus: quinidine resembles quinine, but is dextro-rotatory, and the iodide is very insoluble in water; the solution of cinchonidine, which is laevo-rotatory, does not give the thalleoquin test, nor fluorescence; cinchonine resembles cinchonidine in these respects, but is dextrorotatory.

  • It is dextrorotatory in aqueous or alkaline solution, and laevo-rotatory in acid solution.

  • It rotates the plane of polarized light both to right and left in varying degrees according to its sources, the American product being dextrorotatory and the French laevorotatory.

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