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tartar

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tartar or argol (är`gəl), impure potassium hydrogen tartrate deposited as a crust in fermenting vessels during wine making. When purified, it yields cream of tartar cream of tartar, white crystalline powder. Chemically it is potassium hydrogen tartrate, KC4H5O6, the acidic potassium salt of tartaric acid . It is used as the leavening agent in baking powders.
..... Click the link for more information. . Tartar is the chief natural source of tartaric acid tartaric acid, HO2CCHOHCHOHCO2H, white crystalline dicarboxylic acid. It occurs as three distinct isomers , the dextro-, levo-, and meso- forms.
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Creakle had not preferred his claim to being a Tartar without reason; that he was the sternest and most severe of masters; that he laid about him, right and left, every day of his life, charging in among the boys like a trooper, and slashing away, unmercifully.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
Betteredge gave me one look at parting, which said, as if in so many words, "You have caught a Tartar, Mr.
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The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself, and while his cheek-bones have a very striking indication of a Tartar origin, his eyes have not.
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