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Potassium tartrate

Potassium tartrate, dipotassium tartrate or argol has formula K₂C₄H₄O₆. It is the potassium salt of tartaric acid.

To a small extent, potassium tartrate reacts with water to form potassium hydroxide and tartaric acid.

It is often confused with potassium bitartrate, also known as cream of tartar.

As a food additive, it shares the E number E336 with potassium bitartrate.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Potassium_tartrate". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.

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