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| | Tartaric - definition from Biology-Online.org |
 | | Of or pertaining to Tartary in asia, or the tartars. |
 | | An acid widely diffused throughout the vegetable kingdom, as in grapes, mountain-ash berries, etc, and obtained from tartar as a white crystalline substance, C2H2(OH)2.(CO2H)2, having a strong pure acid taste. |
 | | By extension, any one of the series of isomeric acids (racemic acid, levotartaric acid, inactive tartaric acid) of which tartaric acid proper is the type. |
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