racemate

plural racemates

1. chemistryA mixture which is racemic (“containing equal amounts of dextrorotatory and levorotatory stereoisomers and therefore not optically active”).

   Let us discuss different scenarios that may arise from a racemate consisting of two enantiomers.

   2004, Indra K. Reddy, Reza Mehvar, Chirality in Drug Design and Development, page 424

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   Тhe greatest racemate contents were found in the products prepared in dimethylformamide and dimethylsulphoxide.

   1965, Acta chimica - Volume 44, page 74

plural racemates

1. archaicchemistryAny salt or ester of racemic acid.

plural racemates

1. chemistryOne participating in the same race as others.

   A second three-car pileup happened later on. [Scott] Tucker’s racemate Guy Cosmo avoided the accidents.

   2018, M. Weber, “Rough Start”, in Wild Moments of Sports Car Racing, North Mankato, Minn.: Edge Books, →ISBN, page 15

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   Differences in time at finish, time minus time of winner, and time minus racemate average for various track conditions are given in Tables 15, 16, and 17, respectively.

   1977, Richard Lee Hintz, Factors Influencing Racing Performance of the Standardbred Racer, page 28

   Many environmental factors, such as track condition or shape, racing strategy or quality of racemates, modify the expression of true speed by a horse in a race and thereby bias performance records.

   1981, Virginia Tech Livestock Research Report, page 44

   The interpretation of pace or purse is complicated by the fact that the data reflect not only the performance of the horse but the decisions and behavior of the track officials, the driver, the owner, racemates, etc.

   1989, EAAP Publication, →ISBN, page 132

plural racemates

1. rarechemistryA person of the same racial group as others.

   I'm 'white' and not so proud of it because of what my 'racemates' have done to the Americans and Africans. :-(

   1996 May 8, “I hate being called "African-American"”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet)

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   In Figure 1, Negroes and whites alternate around the circle, so that racemates are isolated from one another communicationally. If they communicate, it must be thru a person of the other race.

   1967, Edward V Abner, David W Lewit, “Racial Contact, Personality, and Group Problem Solving”, in Report Resumes, ERIC

   if you still lay claim to the achievements your ancestors and racemates carried out, you must also share the guilt for their crimes

   1994 June 16, “A harmless question”, in alt.skinheads (Usenet)

   She finds an organizational environment with limited prospects for responsiveness and meaningful exchange, even where, theoretically, one might have expected racial and ethnic affinity to produce responsiveness between racemates.

   2013 August 14, Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Gregory Marston, Work and the Welfare State: Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics (Public Management and Change series), Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 275