optical isomer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of optical isomer
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Optical isomers are very important in organic and biochemistry because living systems often incorporate one specific optical isomer and not the other.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
The complex does not have any geometric isomers, but the mirror image is nonsuperimposable, so it has an optical isomer.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
When they are cis, there will also be an optical isomer.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
You don't have the foggiest notion of what an optical isomer is and you know it.
From A Feast of Demons by Samachson, Joseph
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