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tartar or argol , impure potassium hydrogen tartrate deposited as a crust in fermenting vessels during wine making. When purified, it yields cream of tartar . Tartar is the chief natural source of tartaric acid .

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Tartar a surface-to-air missile developed for the Navy in the 1960s to be deployed on destroyers.

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A Dictionary of Nursing | 2008 | © A Dictionary of Nursing 2008, originally published by Oxford University Press 2008. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

tartar (tar-ter) n. an obsolete name for calculus, the hard deposit that forms on the teeth.

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