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angle of optical rotation, Math - title
Angle through which plane polarized light is rotated clockwise, as seen when facing the light source, in passing through an optically active medium.
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Green Book, p. 33
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Cite as: IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, Electronic version, http://goldbook.iupac.org/A00348.html.
Transformed and rewritten from PDF version (entry http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/A00348.pdf)
by: Miloslav Nic, Jiri Jirat, Bedrich Kosata, ICT Prague, Czech Republic
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