tartaric
adjective
pertaining to or derived from tartar.
tartaric
American
[tahr-tar-ik, -tahr-]
/ tɑrˈtær ɪk, -ˈtɑr- /
adjective
Tartaric
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British
/ tɑːˈtærɪk /
adjective
tartaric
2
British
/ tɑːˈtærɪk /
adjective
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Origin of tartaric
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If eaten, the tartaric acid in grapes or raisins may cause acute kidney disease.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022
These techniques include adding tartaric acid, not to make up for a deficiency but because the founders of Heitz believed that acidity rather than tannins was the key to long aging.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
William Astbury, J. D. Bernal and Kathleen Lonsdale worked at the Royal Institution in London under physicist and Nobel laureate William Henry Bragg, studying small molecules such as tartaric acid.
From Nature ● Apr. 15, 2019
In the latest excavation, the archaeologists skipped the chemical scrub. This allowed researchers to extract four organic compounds present in the potsherds: citric acid, malic acid, succinic acid and tartaric acid.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2017
By means of some tartaric composition he made them look so wonderfully like silver as to deceive everybody.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew
Tartaric, citric, and lactic acids are used to lower the wine’s pH to be too acidic for bacteria or fungal growth.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 20, 2023
I identify the markers of specific natural products: Tartaric acid is a fingerprint compound for grapes in the Middle East, for example, while calcium oxalate points to the presence of barley beer.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2015
Tartaric acid occurs in large amounts only in grapes, and terebinth resin was a wine preservative used all over the ancient Near East up through Roman times.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tartaric acid, or salt of lemons, will quickly remove stains from white muslin or linen.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham
"Mullah rein ist der Wein" is from the Tartaric.
From The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Remy, Arthur F. J.
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