dextrorotatory

Also dex·tro·ro·ta·ry

[dek-stroh-roh-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]

adjective

Optics.

1. turning to the right, as the rotation to the right of the plane of polarization of light in certain crystals and the like. d-

dextrorotatory

1. Relating to a substance that causes dextrorotation.

Other Word Forms

• dextrorotation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dextrorotatory¹

First recorded in 1875–80; dextro- + rotatory

Example Sentences

Sucrose is dextrorotatory, but since fructose has a greater specific rotatory action to the left than glucose has to the right, the mixture resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose is levorotatory.

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Its name has reference to its powerful dextrorotatory action on polarized light.

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It is levorotatory or dextrorotatory according to the temperature and concentration.

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They are dextrorotatory, and the specific rotation is numerically greater than that of albumin; hence the proteids are, in general, dextrorotatory.

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This latter property is remarkable, as most of them are compounds of the strongly dextrorotatory d-glucose.

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