Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Oxaluramide, NH2CONH.C2O2NH2, a crystalline compound made by treating oxaluric ester with alcoholic ammonia, and also by treating a dilute solution of alloxan with hydrocyanic acid and then with ammonia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A complex nitrogenous substance C3N3H5O3 obtained from alloxan (or when urea is fused with ethyl oxamate), as a stable white crystalline powder; -- called also
oxaluramide .
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- noun chemistry A
complex nitrogenous substance, C3N3H5O3, obtained fromalloxan (or whenurea is fused withethyl oxamate ).
Etymologies
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As an approximate anagram of alloxan.
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