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oxamid

oxamid is the archaic form of oxamide.

Meaning of oxamide

Noun

oxamide (countable and uncountable, plural oxamides)

  1. A white crystalline solid, the double amide of oxalic acid, used as a stabilizer for nitrocellulose preparations and as a substitute for urea in fertilizers.

Forms of oxamid

pluraloxamids

Questions about oxamid

What is oxamid the archaic form of?
Oxamid is the archaic form of oxamide.

Words near oxamid in the dictionary

  1. oxamethanes
  2. oxamethylane
  3. oxamic
  4. oxamic acid
  5. oxamic acids
  6. oxamid
  7. oxamidation
  8. oxamidations
  9. oxamide
  10. oxamides
  11. oxamidine

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