Plane polarized light will rotate in different directions when passing through different stereo isomers (from a pair of enantiomers). A polarimter measures the amount of rotation of this plane polarized light and can therefore identify which enantiomers is present. A racemic mixture (see 20.5.6) will not rotate the light.
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