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proposed the term dextrose (from the Latin dexter, meaning "right"), because in aqueous solutions of glucose, the plane of linearly polarized light is turned to the right. In contrast, l-fructose (usually referred to as -fructose) (a ketohexose) and l-glucose (-glucose) turn linearly polarized light to the left. The earlier notation according to the rotation of the plane of linearly polarized light (d and l-nomenclature)

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