optical activity

English

Noun

optical activity (plural optical activities)

  1. (physics) a property caused by asymmetrical molecular or crystal structure that enables a compound or crystal to rotate the plane of incident polarized light
  2. (chemistry) A measure of the amount of optical rotation produced by a standard amount of a substance

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