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cyanuric acid

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noun

  1. a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 3 O 3 N 3 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly in organic synthesis.


Etymology

Origin of cyanuric acid

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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This renal damage is believed to result from kidney stones formed from melamine and uric acid or from melamine and its cocrystallizing chemical derivative, cyanuric acid.

From Science Magazine

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

It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.

From Project Gutenberg

It is obtained as a colorless, mobile, unstable liquid by the heating cyanuric acid.

From Project Gutenberg

In cyanuric acid, hydrated cyanic acid, and cyamelide, we have three such isomeric compounds.

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