inactive tartaric acid

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inactive tartaric acid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  mesotartaric \mes`o*tar*tar"ic\, a. [Meso- + tartaric.] (Chem.)
     Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also inactive tartaric acid
     . It is an optically inactive stereoisomer of
     tartaric acid due to internal compensation of the rotatory
     activity of the two asymmetric centers; it has a plane of
     symmetry in the molecule.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]