What is meant by optical activity

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1. Is the plane of polarization of a polarizing polymer sheet in the similar direction as the molecular chain orientation? Describe

2. What is meant by optical activity?

3. At the sale of polarizing sunglasses, there is half-price special on some glasses with lenses that have a horizontal polarization direction. Would you buy them? If not, why not?

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