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Definition of Cyanuramide
1. Noun. A white crystalline organic base; used mainly in making melamine resins.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyanuramide
Literary usage of Cyanuramide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1853)
"It dissolves readily in water, but the solution, when evaporated, leaves a nearly
insoluble residue, probably cyanuramide. Cyanamide dissolves without ..."
2. Introduction to the Study of Organic Chemistry: The Chemistry of Carbon and by Henry Edward Armstrong (1884)
"When heated to 150°, cyanamide solidifies with considerable evolution of heat,
and is converted into cyanuramide or melamine, ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1922)
"The latter compound is also called melamine and cyanuramide, and from certain
methods of formation it is concluded that it is the amide of cyanuric acid. ..."