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Tartrate

Tartrate \Tar"trate\, n. [Cf. F. tartrate.] (Chem.) A salt of tartaric acid.

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tartrate

n. (context chemistry English) any salt or ester of tartaric acid

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tartrate

n. a salt or ester of tartaric acid

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Tartrate

A tartrate is a salt or ester of the organic compound tartaric acid, a dicarboxylic acid. The formula of the tartrate dianion is OOC-CH(OH)-CH(OH)-COO or CHO.

The main forms of tartrates used commercially are pure crystalline tartartic acid used as an acidulant in non-alcoholic drinks and foods, cream of tartar used in baking, and Rochelle Salt, commonly used in electroplating solutions.

Usage examples of "tartrate".

The special dietetic value of Lemons consists in their potash salts, the citrate, malate, and tartrate, which are respectively antiscorbutic, and of assistance in promoting biliary digestion.

The eluate is treated with tartaric acid to form the acid tartrate of d-lysergic acid N,N-diethyl amide which is isolated.

Concentrated solutions of potassium salts give a yellow crystalline precipitate with platinum chloride, and a white crystalline one with the acid tartrate of soda.

The tartrate and chloride are remarkable from the short duration of their action.

The acid tartrate of d-lysergic acid N,N-diethyl amide melts with decomposition at about 190-196 degrees Centigrade.

Pure citric acid produces no such effect when added in excess to tartrate of potash.

The tartrates and citrates had been released in gas when the water was mixed with the powdery remnant, but by adding those chemicals he had selected to the few clinging particles Van had recreated the crystals in their original form.

Ammonia, salts of, their action affected by previous immersion in water and various solutions, 213 , , induce aggregation in Drosera, 43 , various salts of, causing inflection in Drosera, 166 Antimony, tartrate, action on Drosera, 185 Areolar tissue, its digestion by Drosera, 102 Arsenious acid, action on Drosera, 185 Atropine, action on Drosera, 204 B.

You mean that when I was swearing to Len and old Colin that the stuff was morphine sulphate or tartrate or whatever it was, it was merely bicarbonate of soda all the time?

Cream of Tartar: Potassium hydrogen tartrate or Potassium bitartrate.