Usually means: Equal mixture of mirror-image isomers.
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  1. racemic: Merriam-Webster
  2. racemic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. racemic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. racemic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. racemic: Wordnik
  6. racemic: Wiktionary
  7. racemic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. racemic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. racemic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. racemic: Dictionary.com
  11. Racemic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Racemic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. racemic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Racemic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. racemic: FreeDictionary.org
  16. racemic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. racemic: Encyclopedia

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  1. racemic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. racemic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (racemic)

▸ adjective:  (chemistry) Containing equal amounts of dextrorotatory (+) and levorotatory (−) stereoisomers and therefore not optically active.

Similar:
stereoisomeric, stereolabile, deracemized, heterochiral, stereoelective, pseudoracemic, dextrorotatory, dextrorotatary, scalemic, stereogenic, more...

Opposite:
enantiopure, homochiral, optically pure

Types:
d-threo, l-threo, more...

Phrases:
Racemic mixture, racemic acid, racemic modification, racemic acids, more...

Adjectives:
synthetic, inactive, several, certain, tartaric

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Similar:
stereoisomeric, stereolabile, deracemized, heterochiral, stereoelective, pseudoracemic, dextrorotatory, dextrorotatary, scalemic, stereogenic, more...

Opposite:
enantiopure, homochiral, optically pure

Types:
d-threo, l-threo, more...

Phrases:
Racemic mixture, racemic acid, racemic modification, racemic acids, more...

Adjectives:
synthetic, inactive, several, certain, tartaric



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