What is butter of antimony & cream of tartar? Also write something about kitchen chemistry?
“Butter of antimony” is a name first used by alchemists for the chemical salt written: SbCl3. It in now most popularly know as Antimony(III) chloride. Two other names are Trichlorostibine and Antimonous chloride. http://www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/ics… “Cream of tartar” is is the common name for potassium hydrogen tartrate. http://www.ochef.com/933.htm “Tartar emetic” is antimony potassium tartrate. It is made made from cream of tartar and antimony oxide. This double tartrate of potassium and basic antimony is a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweetish metallic taste, and used in medicine as a sudorific and emetic.
