oxaluric acid
Chemistry
noun
A crystalline acid, NH2·CO·NH·CO·COOH, which decomposes on heating with water into oxalic acid and urea.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Robert Thomson (1810–1864), medical officer of health.
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