purpuric acid
purpuric acid noun: c₈H₅N₅O₆, a nitrogenous acid that yields alloxan and uramil when hydrolysed, known for its purple salts.
Noun
purpuric acid (uncountable)
- C₈H₅N₅O₆, a nitrogenous acid that yields alloxan and uramil when hydrolysed, known for its purple salts.
purpuric acid meaning in Tamil
purpuric acid in Tamil
- உப்பு வகை
Origin of purpuric acid
Named by Dr W. H. Wollaston "from its remarkable property of forming compounds with most bases of a red or purple colour" (as reported by William Prout in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 108 in 1818, pages 420-428).
Words formed from purpuric acid
Questions about purpuric acid
- What does purpuric acid mean?
- Purpuric acid means c₈H₅N₅O₆, a nitrogenous acid that yields alloxan and uramil when hydrolysed, known for its purple salts.
- What is purpuric acid in Tamil?
- Purpuric acid in Tamil is உப்பு வகை. See Purpuric acid meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is purpuric acid?
- Purpuric acid is a noun.
Words near purpuric acid in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: purpuric acid (page history and authors); purpuric acid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “purpuric acid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/purpuric_acid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.