Tartar
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Tartar may refer to:
- tartar sauce
- calculus (dental), hardened dental plaque
- salts of tartaric acid:
- Cream of tartar,
- tartar emetic.
- Tartar (rayon), a rayon in Azerbaijan
- Tartar, Switzerland, a village in the Grisons
- A misspelling of the name Tatars, an ethnic group in present-day Russia (this term formerly extended to nearly all Central Asian, Turkic, and Mongolian ethnic groups)
- Steak tartare a meat dish made from ground raw beef.
- A name to describe the enemy invaders in Dino Buzzati's existential novel, The Tartar Steppe
[edit] See also
- The RIM-24 Tartar missile
- The Tartar Guided Missile Fire Control System