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Definition of: tartar emetic
Chem.
A white, crystalline, poisonous tartrate of antimony and potassium, K(SbO)C4H4O6·1/2H2O, with a sweet, afterward disagreeable, metallic taste: used in medicine, chiefly as an emetic, and in dyeing as a mordant.
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