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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A salt or ester of tartaric acid.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A salt of tartaric acid.

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

  • noun (Chem.) A salt of tartaric acid.

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  • noun chemistry any salt or ester of tartaric acid

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  • noun a salt or ester of tartaric acid

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  • Detectives also found a religious book containing "written text 7/22/2012 End of…," five passports, two boxes containing gun parts and an empty pharmacy bottle for the medication Metprolol tartrate, which is generally used to treat hypertension.

    More guns, ammunition found at home of Nevada IHOP shooter 2011

  • Drenches that contain tetrahydro-pyrimidines will also do the trick: either pyrantel pamoate at a rate of 6. 6mg per kilogram of horse; or you could opt for a pyrantel tartrate, which is used as a daily wormer at a dose rate of 2. 64mg per kilogram.

    Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines 2009

  • Similar operations with other well known reducing agents, such as tartrate of soda, glycerine, etc., do not give such good colors, because they do not precipitate the copper solution so rapidly and at so low a temperature.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various

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  • This picture is looking down into the tank after we pumped the wine out to clean out the lees and tartrate crystals.

    The New York Cork Report: 2009

  • A generic, less expensive form of Ambien zolpidem tartrate went on the market in 2005 and instantly "became a 'best-buy' drug from a safety, effectiveness and affordability point of view," said Jon Schommer, a professor at the University of Minnesota's College of Pharmacy in Minneapolis.

    Z drugs keep sleep-aid market awake Leslie Tamura 2011

  • A generic, less expensive form of Ambien zolpidem tartrate went on the market in 2005 and instantly "became a 'best-buy' drug from a safety, effectiveness and affordability point of view," said Jon Schommer, a professor at the University of Minnesota's College of Pharmacy in Minneapolis.

    Z drugs keep sleep-aid market awake Leslie Tamura 2011

  • Over the next few minutes, Snyder gave the president amyl nitrite to sniff and injections of papaverine hydrochloride, morphine tartrate, heparin, and, later, a second shot of morphine.

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • If they are tartaric crystals, consider this from the Oxford Companion to Wine: Only the most informed consumers appreciate the harmlessness of tartrate crystals in bottle.

    Waiter, there’s a snow globe in my wine! [tartaric crystals] | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • The modern wine industry has in the main decided that tartrate stabilization is preferable to consumer education.

    Waiter, there’s a snow globe in my wine! [tartaric crystals] | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

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