tartaric
Americanadjective
adjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- antitartaric adjective
Etymology
Origin of tartaric
Example Sentences
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If eaten, the tartaric acid in grapes or raisins may cause acute kidney disease.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2022
Industrial winemakers today can simply take care of any potential problems in the cellar, adding products like Mega Purple, powdered tannin or tartaric acid to solve issues of color, structure or acidity.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2020
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
“The tartaric acid establishes grapes,” said Andrew Waterhouse, who studies the chemistry of wine at the University of California at Davis and was not a participant in this research.
From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2017
This rotation is distinct altogether from that which is produced when polarised light is passed along a tube filled with a solution of sugar or tartaric acid.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew
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