What is "argol"

Tartar \Tar"tar\, n. [F. tartre (cf. Pr. tartari, Sp., Pg., & It. tartaro, LL. tartarum, LGr. ?); perhaps of Arabic origin.]

1. (Chem.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc.

2. A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.

   Cream of tartar. (Chem.) See under Cream.

   Tartar emetic (Med. Chem.), a double tartrate of potassium and basic antimony. It is a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweetish metallic taste, and used in medicine as a sudorific and emetic.

n. potassium tartrate

Argol may mean one of the following:

• potassium tartrate
• the arghul, a woodwind musical instrument from the Middle East
• Argol, Finistère, a commune on the Crozon peninsula in departement of Finistère, in Brittany, France.
• a locality in ancient Persia

"Argol" is also found used as follows:

• The Castle of Argol is the first novel of Julien Gracq.
• Sebastian Argol is a pseudonym used at one time by Turkish musician, writer and director Zülfü Livaneli.
• Del Argol was the Spanish artist who drew the comic book cartoon character 'Robbie', a navy walrus.
• Argol is also a forename in fiction and non-fiction. Several characters in fantasy fiction or role playing games are named Argol. (It is also sometimes spelled Argoll.)