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Melamine

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A nitrogenous strongly basic chemical substance C3H6N6 structurally 246 triamino 135 triazine produced from several cyanogen compounds and obtained as a white crystalline substance formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of melam Called also cyanuramide It is used as one of the starting components together with formaldehyde in the preparation of melamine resins including the commercially marketed Formica TM It is solid at room temperature and sublimes at temperatures approaching 250deg C decomposing at 345deg C Density 1573

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