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Definition of Levogyre
1. turning toward the left [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levogyre
Literary usage of Levogyre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1904)
"The optical activity of cellulose has been examined by Bechamp and Levallois who
found contradictory results ; the latter chemist found that it was levogyre ..."
2. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"... whereas we found Pan! balsam to be levogyre.1 The Para and ... or levogyre,
invariably afforded us essential oils deviating to the left; their sp. gr. ..."
3. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"It is levogyre ; and has the specific gravity of distilled water. It is soluble,
like Canada turpentine, in ether, chloroform, and benzine, ..."
4. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"It will be noticed that levogyre is abbreviated to the letter "1," dextrogyre.
t<> "d," ... Of each of these, three varieties are known: (1) The levogyre, ..."
5. Chemical French: An Introduction to the Study of French Chemical Literature by Maurice Louis Dolt (1918)
"... them, to them levé, -e, adj., raised, risen, lifted up lever, va, to lift, to
raise up se lever, vr, to get up lever, nm, rising levogyre, adj., ..."
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