oxonic acid

English

Etymology

Probable from glyoxalic and carbonic.

Noun

(organic chemistry) A complex nitrogenous acid, C₄H₅N₃O₄, not known in the free state, but obtained, in combination with its salts, by a slow oxidation of uric acid, to which it is related.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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