Category:Oxonic

Ox*on"ic, a. Etym: [prob. glyoxalic + carbonic.] (chem.)

Defn: pertaining to, or designating, 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.