optical activity: Quick Facts
Facts
| Also Known As | optical rotation • rotation, optical |
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Related Topics and References
Topics
dextrorotatorylevorotatoryspecific rotationpleochroismdouble refractionBrewster’s lawoptical crystallographyoptic axisoptical isomerismuniaxial crystal
Key People
Werner Kuhn
Swiss chemist
Joseph-Achille Le Bel
French chemist
Frederic Stanley Kipping
British chemist