noun
- the property of being a racemic mixture; the state of having equal amounts of left-handed and right-handed forms of a chiral molecule
Usage: chemistry
Examples
- The racemism of the compound made it optically inactive.
- Scientists studied the racemism in the synthesized drug.
- The presence of racemism indicated equal concentrations of both enantiomers.
- Racemism can occur during certain chemical reactions.
- The laboratory confirmed racemism in the sample through polarimetry.