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optical activity

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ID 703819 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain Chemistry
  • mõne aine võime pöörata teda läbiva valguse polarisatsioonitasandit
  • a property possessed by many substances whereby plane-polarized light, in passing through them, suffers a rotation of its plane of polarization, the angle of rotation being proportional to the thickness of substance traversed by the light
optical activity
Usage examples
  • The end-plates must show no internal stress, that is must show no optical activity.

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