A racemic mixture can rotate a plane-polarized light in a clockwise direction.

Name: A racemic mixture can rotate a plane-polarized light in a clockwise direction.
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A racemic mixture contains equal amounts of left- and right-handed enantiomers of a chiral molecule, which rotate plane-polarized light in opposite directions, canceling each other out, so the overall mixture does not rotate the plane of polarized light.

A Racemic Mixture Can Rotate a Plane-Polarized Light in a Clockwise