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oxalic + aniline + amide

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oxanilide (plural oxanilides)

  1. (organic chemistry) A white crystalline substance resembling oxanilamide, obtained by heating aniline oxalate, and regarded as a double anilide of oxalic acid; diphenyl oxamide.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 oxanilide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)