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A mixture of equal amounts of two enantiomers ________.

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Racemic mixture of racemate

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A racemic mixture or racemate is a mixture with the same amount of left- handed and the right handed enantiomers.

The main characteristic of a racemic mixture is that is optically inactive, that means that can not rotate polarized light. Also a racemic mixture has other different physical properties than the pure enantiomers.

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