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Optical isomerism occurs due to chiral centers in molecules, resulting in non-superimposable mirror image forms called enantiomers. Enantiomers have identical physical properties but differ in their effect on plane-polarized light, with one being dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory. Racemic mixtures, containing equal amounts of both enantiomers, are optically inactive as their effects on light cancel each other out.

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