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- adjective chemistry
dextrorotatory
Etymologies
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dextro- + -gyre
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As if that were not enough to ensure the longevity of refreshingly ordinary words like clockwise, further along the avenues of science we come across the adjectives dextrorotatory or dextrorotatary, dextrogyrous, dextrogyrate and dextrogyre.
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