[Marketing] Etymology of Dextrose

[Sameer Verma]

My good friend Bill Kendrick of Tuxpaint fame just posted an article
on Facebook on "Optical Rotation", tangentially related to the meaning
of Dextrose. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_rotation:
"In fact, one name for glucose, dextrose, refers to the fact that it
causes linearly polarized light to rotate to the right or dexter side"

Thought I'd pass it along.

cheers,
Sameer
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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Information Systems
Director, Campus Business Solutions
San Francisco State University
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