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Cyamelide is an
amorphous In condensed matter physics and materials science, an amorphous solid (or non-crystalline solid, glassy solid) is a solid that lacks the long-range order that is characteristic of a crystal. Etymology The term comes from the Greek ''a'' ("wi ...
white solid with the approximate formula (HNCO)x. It is the product of the polymerisation of cyanic acid together with its cyclic trimer
cyanuric acid Cyanuric acid or 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triol is a chemical compound with the formula (CNOH)3. Like many industrially useful chemicals, this triazine has many synonyms. This white, odorless solid finds use as a precursor or a component of bleaches ...
. It is a porcelain-like white substance which is insoluble in water.


References

* *{{cite journal , title = Concerning cyamelide , author = Hantzsch A , journal =
Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft ''Chemische Berichte'' (usually abbreviated as ''Ber.'' or ''Chem. Ber.'') was a German-language scientific journal of all disciplines of chemistry founded in 1868. It was one of the oldest scientific journals in chemistry, until it merged with ' ...
, year = 1905 , volume = , issue = , pages = 1013–1021 Polyamides