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Definition: tartar emetic
tartar emetic
n : a poisonous colorless salt used as a mordant and in medicine
[syn:
antimony potassium tartrate]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tartar emetic
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of
salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.
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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.
[1913 Webster]
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