Word Meanings - TARTARINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar.

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• TARTAREOUS
  Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous. (more info) 1. Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• TARTARUM
  See TARTAR
• INCINERATION
  The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation. The phenix kind, Of whose incineration, There riseth a new creation. Skelton.
• POTASSIUM
  An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K . Note: It is reduced from the carbonate
• TARTAREAN; TARTAREOUS
  Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.
• TARTAROUS
  Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.
• TARTARIC
  Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar. Tartaric acid. 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
• CARBONATED
  Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.
• TARTARINE
  Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar.
• TARTARATED
  Tartrated.
• CARBONATE
  A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.
• OBTAIN
  1. To hold; to keep; to possess. His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton. 2. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. Some pray for riches; riches they
• TARTARIAN
  The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.
• TARTAR
  A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• TARTARIZE
  To impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar. Tartarized antimony , tartar emetic.
• OBTAINER
  One who obtains.
• TARTARUS
  The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously
• TARTARIAN; TARTARIC
  Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars. Tartarian lamb , Scythian lamb. See Barometz.
• PYROTRITARTARIC
  Designating an acid which is more commonly called uric acid.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• DECARBONATE
  To deprive of carbonic acid.
• SUBTARTAREAN
  Being or living under Tartarus; infernal. "Subtartarean powers." Pope.
• SULPHOCARBONATE
  A salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.