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What does racemic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chemistry) containing equal amounts of dextrorotatory (D) and levorotatory (L) stereoisomers and therefore not being optically active; typically, will be synthetic rather than natural
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Examination of liquors from which racemic acid has been deposited has always shown them to contain much inactive tartaric acid.
The chemical structure of the natural form of ephedrine is levorotatory, while the synthetic ephedrine is a racemic mixture.
A solution of racemic acid precipitates a neutral salt of calcium, which is not the case with tartaric acid.
The lower isothermal, on the other hand, would be obtained at a temperature at which the racemic compound could be formed.
It has developed a new process to separate racemic epoxides by hydrolysis.
It has an asymmetric carbon atom and therefore has levo and dextro isomers but is supplied as a racemic mixture for anesthetic use.

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