A mixture of equal amounts of two enantiomers ________.
A) is called a racemic mixture
B) is optically inactive
C) implies that the enantiomers are meso forms
D) both A and B
E) none of the above

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A mixture of equal amounts of two enantiomers is called a racemic mixture, and it is optically inactive because the two enantiomers rotate plane-polarized light in opposite directions and cancel out each other's optical activity.

A Mixture of Equal Amounts of Two Enantiomers ________