Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting an acid, a very volatile liquid, HNCO, formed by heating cyanuric acid, or by the action of phosphoric anhydrid on carbamide (urea).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Chem.) Designating an acid isomeric with cyanic acid.
  • adjective an acid metameric with cyanic acid, and resembling it in its salts. It is obtained as a colorless, mobile, unstable liquid by the heating cyanuric acid. Called technically carbimide.

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  • adjective chemistry Of or pertaining to isocyanic acid, and to its salts (the isocyanates)

Etymologies

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iso- +‎ cyanic

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