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cyanuric acid

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cy·a·nu·ric acid  (s-nrk, -nyr-)
n.
A white crystalline acid, C3N3(OH)3, that decomposes with heating to form cyanic acid.
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Noun1.cyanuric acid - a trimer of cyanic acid
acid - any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt


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In 2007 shipments of wheat and rice proteins were found to contain large quantities of melamine and cyanuric acid.
Cyanuric acid is limited to 100 ppm; these limits are tested and enforced (City of Plano, 2004).
By now many have surmised why melamine (or cyanuric acid, or urea) is added to protein-based products such as powdered milk, wheat gluten and isolated soy protein.
 
 
 
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