trigenic acid

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English

Etymology

So called because it is supposed to contain the radicals of three molecules of cyanic acid.

Noun

trigenic acid (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry) An acid, C4H7N3O2, obtained by the action of cyanic acid vapour on cold aldehyde.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trigenic acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)