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tar'tar emet'ic

Chem., Pharm.
a white, water-soluble, sweet and metallic-tasting, poisonous powder or granules, C₄H₄KO₇Sb, used as a mordant for dyeing textiles and leather, and in medicine as an expectorant, for inducing vomiting, and for infections by schistosomes. Also called antimony potassium tartrate, potassium antimonyl tartrate.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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