Antimony potassium tartrate

• Tartar emetic
• Potassium antimony (III) oxidtartrat
• Antimonylkaliumtartrat
• Antimony tartaricum
• Tartar emetic
• Tartar emetic

Colorless, sweet-tasting crystals

Fixed

2.6 g · cm -3

100 ° C ( water delivery )

• Moderately in water ( 55 g · l -1)
• Insoluble in ethanol

Attention

Not determined, as carcinogenic

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Potassium antimonyl tartrate, and tartar emetic, is a harmful, especially nausea exciting acting chemical compound. It is obtained by saturating purified tartar with antimony oxide and forms colorless, transparent, shiny crystals, which soon become opaque and white in the air. It is a salt of tartaric acid.

Use

Potassium antimonyl tartrate was administered earlier in doses of 20-30 mg as an emetic, which causes approximately 10 minutes after ingestion nausea and vomiting. In the digestive tract, it stimulates the secretion of serotonin Enterochromaffin cells, which induces in turn, 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 receptors vomiting.

A known drug was prepared on the basis of potassium antimonyl tartrate tartar emetic ( aqua benedicta rulandi or Rulandswasser ), which was found until the 19th century in pharmacopoeias.

In the textile and leather industry tartar emetic is used as a mordant.