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optical activity
The property, possessed by certain substances, of rotating the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through them. This optical rotation is measured by polarimetry. Optical activity is shown by asymmetric crystals which have two mirror-image forms – the rotation being to the left or right respectively – and by compounds with asymmetric molecules showing optical stereoisomers.
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