If you're a skin-care fanatic who spends hours on #skintok, you may have already come across tartaric acid, a trendy skin-care ingredient making its way into many new formulations. If you haven't ...

Tartaric acid is an important food additive that is commonly combined with baking soda to function as a leavening agent in recipes. It can be used in all kinds of foods except untreated foods.

Drinking 12-35 glasses of wine a month was tied to a lower risk of combined heart failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, and cardiovascular death over a median 9 years of follow-up. The study results ...

Wine researchers say their latest discovery may one day lead to winemakers being able to manipulate the acidity of wines without the costly addition of tartaric acid. University of Adelaide wine ...

In a recent study published in The Journal of nutrition, health and aging, a group of researchers investigated the anti-inflammatory effects of wine by analyzing the relationship between urinary ...

A racemic mixture of tartaric acid forms mirror-image domains with equal propensity when adsorbed on a copper surface. When one enantiomer is present in a slight excess, however, only ordered domains ...

You realize a guy is destined for greatness when he discovers molecular chirality at age 25. So it was for Louis Pasteur, who, as a budding young scientist and newly minted Ph.D., decided to take a ...

Last year, a group of Japanese physicists grabbed headlines around the world by announcing that they could induce superconductivity in a sample of iron telluride by soaking it in red wine. They found ...

Cooking a delicious risotto and making plastics are actually very similar processes. In both, ingredients come together and are heated to create a product, but current recipes for synthesizing ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Metabolic conversion of L-galactono-1,4-lactone and L-ascorbic acid to (+)-tartaric acid and oxalic acid has been studied in Pelargonium ...

Careful observers may note, when looking at a small bowl of cream of tartar, that it is neither particularly creamy nor particularly like anything we'd call "tartar." In fact, some may confuse it with ...

One of the most important characteristics in determining wine quality is acidity. Acidity is what gives wine its tangy and sour flavor, complementing foods in a palate-cleansing and refreshing way.