cyanuric acid

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cyanuric acid¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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

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