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Hello, I am a new editor User:Stolen Vehicle and I am trying to gain support for the addition of some information to the article Anna (given name). This is on its relevance to the Hindu Goddess of sustenance, plenty or abundance Anna Lakshmi. I believe this has relevance for the use of the name Anna, for an Indian, Hindu at least. I found this information in the article a while ago, and do myself know of this goddess (see Annalakshmi), but it had been recently reverted. Upon inserting it back in I have come across what I believe is illogical and unreasonable resistance from several editors who have reverted it. As I am new here and do not know anyone I have decided to canvas for help to (hopefully) form a majority consensus for its addition. I invite you to please read the arguments at Talk:Anna (given name) and give your opinion. Thank you and best regards

OPTICAL ACTIVITY (and it's relation to the optical rotation of plane polarized light by non-chiral molecules)
Verbatim from "Organic Chemistry 6th ed" Morrison and Boyd (Sec 4.8) p133.

lets us look more closely at what happens when a beam of polarized light is passed through a sample of a single pure compound.

When a beam of polarized light passes through an individual molecule, in nearly every instance it's plane is rotated a tiny amount by interaction with the charged particles of the molecule; the direction and extent of rotation varies with the orientation of the particular molecule in the beam. For most compounds, because of the random distribution of the large number of molecules that make up even the smallest sample of a single pure compound, for every molecule that the light encounters, there is another (identical) molecule orientated as the mirror image of the first, which exactly cancels it's effect. The net result is no rotation, that is, optical inactivity. Thus optical inactivity is a property not of individual molecules, but rather the random distribution of molecules that can serve as mirror images of each other. ........

In a pure sample of a single enantiomer, no molecule can serve as the mirror image of another; there is no exact canceling-out of rotations, and the net result is optical activity.