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I think it's the enantiomer's orientation with respect to the direction that the incident light is polarized in. This will determine how much the enantiomer can rotate the polarized light and in what direction. I only just learned this stuff in orgo today so don't hold me to it. Any help from...

apparently it is a unit of pressure that was used in the '80's in medicine. I don't know what it was doing in my chemical engineering textbook 30 years later but there you go.

The problem involves a spray drying process in which a liquid containing dissolved or suspended solids is sprayed into a chamber that has air flowing into it which contains water. One outlet stream has the wet air, and the other has dry solids. The Air inlet stream is described as having...