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Definition of Levorotatory
1. Adjective. Rotating to the left.
Definition of Levorotatory
1. a. Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc.
Definition of Levorotatory
1. Adjective. (context: chemistry of an optically active compound or crystal) That rotates the plane of polarized light to the left, or anticlockwise. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Levorotatory
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Levorotatory
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Levorotatory
Literary usage of Levorotatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Physiological and Pathological Chemistry by Gustav von Bunge (1902)
"He showed that after eating 100 grms. of levorotatory fruit- sugar, ...
These experiments of Kulz on the fate of levorotatory sugar in diabetics have since ..."
2. Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis: A Manual for the by Harvey Washington Wiley (1897)
"The sample contains unfermented levorotatory sugar, derived either from the ...
It contains both levorotatory sugar and the unfermentable constituents of ..."
3. Quantitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1903)
"It contains unfermented levorotatory sugar, derived either from the must or from the
... It contains only levorotatory sugar. (n,1 It rotates to thr right. ..."
4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"It contains unfermented levorotatory sugar, derived either from the must or from the
... It contains both levorotatory sugar and unfermented cane sugar. ..."
5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann, Joseph Merritt Matthews (1898)
"It contains unfermented levorotatory sugar, derived either from the must or ...
It contains both levorotatory sugar and the unfermentable constituents of ..."
6. Select Methods in Food Analysis by Henry Leffmann, Beam, William, William Beam (1905)
"unfermentable constituents of glucose, and levorotatory sugars are absent. ...
If after inversion it is levorotatory, sucrose was present; if dextrorotatory ..."
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