tartrate
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of tartrate
1785–95; tartr- (combining form representing tartar ) + -ate 2
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Isofagomine tartrate, for instance, was initially intended to treat Gaucher's disease, a rare genetic disorder, but it stalled after a failed clinical trial in 2009.
From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017
Seeking the pure principle of the pituitary glands, the researcher isolated a pituitary tartrate which was still perceptibly active when diluted with 18,000,000,000 parts of water.
From Time Magazine Archive
The two doctors recommended injections of ergotamine tartrate as soon as the headache starts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The amount of filler varies from 15 to 50 per cent; the least is found in the tartrate powders and the most in the phosphate powders.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Harry Snyder
In strong solutions they give a yellow precipitate of ammonium platino-chloride on the addition of chloride of platinum; and with the acid tartrate of soda yield a white precipitate of hydric ammonic tartrate.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
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