dextrorotatory
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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.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
They are dextrorotatory, and the specific rotation is numerically greater than that of albumin; hence the proteids are, in general, dextrorotatory.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
This latter property is remarkable, as most of them are compounds of the strongly dextrorotatory d-glucose.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
Its name has reference to its powerful dextrorotatory action on polarized light.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
It is strongly dextrorotatory, the anhydrous sugar having a specific rotatory power of +185°, and the crystalline form, C18H32O16, showing a specific rotation of +104.5°.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
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