Racemic mixture
Mixture with equal amounts of left- and right-handed chiral isomers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In chemistry, a racemic mixture or racemate (/reɪˈsiːmeɪt, rə-, ˈræsɪmeɪt/[1]) is one that has equal amounts of left- and right-handed enantiomers of a chiral molecule or salt. Racemic mixtures are rare in nature, but many compounds are produced industrially as racemates.