Antimony and its compounds do not cause acute human health effects, with the exception of antimony potassium tartrate ( " tartar emetic " ), a prodrug that is intentionally used to treat leishmaniasis patients.
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Rodenticide-grade zinc phosphide usually comes as a black powder containing 75 % of zinc phosphide and 25 % of antimony potassium tartrate, an emetic to cause vomiting if the material is accidentally ingested by humans or domestic animals.
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The New England Journal of Medicine reported a case study of a patient whose wife secretly gave him a dose of a product called " tartaro emetico " which contained trivalent antimony ( antimony potassium tartrate ) and is sold in Central America as an aversive treatment for alcohol abuse.
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a poisonous colorless salt used as a mordant and in medicine पर्याय: tartar emetic,
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