tartaric

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= -- This extract is often made from tartaric or citric acid.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or derived from tartar or tartaric acid.

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  • There are three key types of acid in wine, tartaric, malic and citric. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Chemically, this pulp contains citric, tartaric, [551] and malic acids, as compounds of potassium; with gum, pectin and starch. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Sulphate of lime in excess gives a white precipitate, soluble in nitric or hydrochloric acid, but insoluble in oxalic, tartaric, acetic, or any vegetable acid Oxalate or Binoxalate of Potash= (salts of sorrel or salts of lemon) is almost as poisonous as the acid itself XIV.--CARBOLIC ACID Carbolic Acid, Phenic Acid, or Phenol=, is largely employed as a disinfectant, and is often supplied in ordinary beer-bottles without labels Symptoms._--An intense burning pain extending from the mouth to the stomach and intestines. —  Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
  • There are two forms of tartaric-acid crystals of precisely the same chemical formula, one of which reflects polarized light to the left, and the other to the right. —  Disease and Its Causes
  • Citric, tartaric, malic and other organic acids exist in fruits in combination with potash and other bases, as well as in the free state. —  The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
 

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  1. = French tartrique, from New Latin tartaricus, from Middle Latin tartarum, tartar: see tartar.
 

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/tɑrˈtærɪk/
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