Give reasons : Racemic mixture is optically inactive.
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Solution
Racemic mixture contains two enantiomers (d and l forms) in equal proportions and thus, the rotation due to one isomer is cancelled by the rotation due to another. Therefore, it has zero optical rotation and hence, it is optically inactive.
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