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RACAEMIC
Denoting a mixture of opticallyactive compounds that is itself optically inactive, being composed of an equalnumber of dextro-and levorotatory substances, which are separable.
Those compounds internally compensated (i.e., having an insideplane of symmetry), and therefore not separableinto d and l (or + and -) forms, are termed meso.