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tartaric acid

NOUN
  1. an acid found in many fruits; used in soft drinks and confectionery and baking powder

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  • What Pasteur correctly made of this is that the molecules of tartaric acid could exist in either a “right-handed” or “left-handed” form, rather like left- and right-handed gloves. First Contact
  • To prepare the pure base a very concentrated solution of this pure hydrochlorate is treated with an excess of a very concentrated solution of caustic soda, and pieces of caustic potash are added, whereupon the free alkaloid separates out at first as a colorless resinous stringy mass, which, however, upon standing, turns crystalline, forming monoclinic crystals similar to tartaric acid or glycocol. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
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  • A different method to concoct it used five grams of "Iodite of Potassium," mixed with 100 grams of water, two grams of tartaric acid, "Sulpharated soda," "Ferro cyanite of potassium" and diluted ink. Wired Top Stories
  • Citric and tartaric acids give a rapid impression of acidity, while malic, lactic, and fumaric acids are slower to register on the tongue. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • Benedict’s reagent is a solution of copper sulfate, sodium hydroxide, and tartaric acid. N Testtube | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • Wineries and grape growers have launched hundreds of retrofit projects as a result, including insulating wine tanks and using electrodialysis instead of a process called cold stabilization to reduce tartaric acid in wine. In Search of Lower Sales
  • It is usually assumed that when lead glance is opened up with nitric and tartaric acids and water, the silver remains in solution as nitrate.
  • As tartaric acid possesses two stereogenic carbon atoms, it exists in three stereoisomeric forms.
  • Louis Pasteur performed the first enantiomeric resolution in 1848 while studying crystals of a salt of racemic tartaric acid.
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