cyanuric acid
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cyanuric acid
First recorded in 1875–80
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"It only takes a small amount of cyanuric acid to trigger the stone formation and kidney toxicity," says Wei Jia, a pharmacologist from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 13, 2013
The researchers winnowed down the suspects to bacteria called Klebsiella and found that this microbe on its own processed melamine into cyanuric acid and other byproducts.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 13, 2013
Moreover, the rats on antibiotics excreted twice as much melamine, likely because there were no bacteria present to convert melamine to cyanuric acid.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 13, 2013
They wondered if bacteria had converted some melamine to cyanuric acid.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 13, 2013
Two years later, in 1830, Wöhler published, jointly with Liebig, the results of a research on cyanic and cyanuric acid and on urea.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
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