Racemic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 176 anagrams from letters in racemic (acceimr).
1830-40; French racémique Latin racēm(us) raceme + French -ique -ic
A solution of racemic acid precipitates a neutral salt of calcium, which is not the case with tartaric acid.
As, for instance, strychnine racemate, a compound of racemic acid with the optically active strychnine.
Examination of liquors from which racemic acid has been deposited has always shown them to contain much inactive tartaric acid.
The lower isothermal, on the other hand, would be obtained at a temperature at which the racemic compound could be formed.
racemic acid is rather less soluble than tartaric, and separates first from a solution containing the two acids.
In the one case, therefore, the racemic compound has a higher, in the other a lower melting point than the active forms.
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