Difference between Dextrorotatory and Right-handed

What is the difference between Dextrorotatory and Right-handed?

Dextrorotatory as an adjective is of an optically active compound or crystal that rotates the plane of polarized light to the right, or clockwise while Right-handed as an adjective is of one who uses their right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than their left.

Dextrorotatory

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: of an optically active compound or crystal that rotates the plane of polarized light to the right, or clockwise

Right-handed

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of one who uses their right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than their left.Intended to be worn on, or used by the right hand.Turning or spiralling from left to right; clockwise.Of a particle for which the direction of its spin is the same as the direction of its motion.

We hope you now know whether to use Dextrorotatory or Right-handed in your sentence.

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