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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting an acid, a colorless, amorphous, very deliquescent compound, C8H10O11, prepared by heating tartaric acid, of which it is an anhydrid, at 140–150° C. Also called ditartrylic acid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white amorphous deliquescent substance, C8H10O11; -- called also ditartaric, tartrilic, or tartrylic acid.

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