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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2022🎓 HS🔄 Round 6#️⃣ Question 13🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Researchers in the McGuire group at MIT have used high-resolution rotational spectroscopy to discover the first chiral molecule in space, propylene oxide. If a 1 molar solution of pure (R)-propylene oxide rotates plane-polarized light by 15 degrees, what percent (R)-propylene oxide is a 1 molar solution of propylene oxide that rotates plane-polarized light by 9 degrees?

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