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racemic


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Racemic  \Ra*ce"mic\,  a.  [Cf.  F.  rac['e]mique.  See  {Raceme}.] 
  (Chem.) 
  Pertaining  to  or  designating,  an  acid  found  in  many  kinds  of 
  grapes.  It  is  also  obtained  from  tartaric  acid,  with  which  it 
  is  isomeric,  and  from  sugar,  gum,  etc.,  by  oxidation.  It  is  a 
  sour  white  crystalline  substance,  consisting  of  a  combination 
  of  dextrorotatory  and  levorotatory  tartaric  acids.  --Gregory.