Abstract
THIS small book is a remarkably clear exposition of what is a somewhat recondite and difficult branch of chemical physics. It is well known to students of optical science that there are liquids and solid substances in solution which have the strange power of rotating the plane of vibration of a polarised ray of light that is passing through them. Familiar examples are turpentine and other essential oils, sugars, tartaric acid, quinine and albumen. But Dr. Landolt says that more than seven hundred substances, all carbon compounds, are known to exhibit this molecular rotation.
Optical Activity and Chemical Composition.
By Dr. H. Landolt; translated by Dr. J. McCrae. Pp. xi + 158. (London: Whittaker and Co., 1899.)
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G., J. Optical Activity and Chemical Composition . Nature 61, 269–270 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061269b0
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