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What does levorotatory mean?

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  1. (chemistry) That rotates the plane of polarized light to the left, or anticlockwise.
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One compound, a racemic mixture of two enantiomers, dextro-rotatory clopidriogel and levorotatory clopidriogel, was of particular interest to Sanofi.
Foliar Fertilizer: This highlights products for foliar applications that feature safety of use, due to the low molecular weight and the presence of amino acids primarily in the levorotatory form.
One was dextrorotatory when dissolved in aqueous solution, the other was levorotatory.
The gums are translucent, amorphous substances, whose solutions in water are levorotatory.
The chemical structure of the natural form of ephedrine is levorotatory, while the synthetic ephedrine is a racemic mixture.
In fact, levorotatory amino acids are absorbed almost as quickly as they are released from protein or peptide.

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