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This is to do with chemicals which are optically active, which means they rotate the plane of polarized light which is passed through them. Dextrorotatory means that the plane of polarization is rotated to the right, or clockwise, as observed when facing the oncoming light. Levo, or laevo-rotatory is the opposite, rotation to the left. Molecules which do this are mirror images of each other.

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