Melamine /ˈmɛləmiːn/ is an organic compound with the formula C3H6N6. This white solid is a trimer of cyanamide, with a 1,3,5-triazine skeleton. Like cyanamide...

Melamine foam is a foam-like material consisting of a melamine-formaldehyde condensate. It is the active component of a number of abrasive cleaner sponges...

Melamine resin or melamine formaldehyde (also shortened to melamine) is a resin with melamine rings terminated with multiple hydroxyl groups derived from...

Melamine cyanurate, also known as melamine–cyanuric acid adduct or melamine–cyanuric acid complex, is a crystalline complex formed from a 1:1 mixture...

other food materials and components being adulterated with the chemical melamine, which resulted in kidney stones and other kidney damage in infants. The...

widespread recall of many brands of cat and dog foods due to contamination with melamine and cyanuric acid. The recalls in North America, Europe, and South Africa...

Hexa(methoxymethyl)melamine (HMMM) is a hemiaminal ether commonly used as a crosslinking agent in the production of coatings and rubber items. It is produced...

performing based on cost and ease of use. Urea melamine resins offer water resistance with more melamine offering higher resistance. It is typically used...

and contamination of several food and feed ingredients with inexpensive melamine and other compounds, such as cyanuric acid, ammeline and ammelide, are...

2008, there were more than 52,000 reported cases of children made sick by melamine-tainted dairy products in China. Most of the children were diagnosed with...

nitrogen atoms. A well known triazine is melamine (2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazine). With three amino substituents, melamine is a precursor to commercial resins...

incident. On September 30, 2008, Hong Kong authorities announced that melamine had been detected in Pocky Men's coffee cream-coated biscuit sticks made...

injected into chicken, pork, or other meats to increase their weight Urea, melamine and other nonprotein nitrogen sources, added to protein products to inflate...

interaction with melamine, forming insoluble melamine cyanurate. This interaction locks the cyanuric acid into the tri-keto tautomer. Melamine cyanurate is...

this purpose. Melamine formaldehyde resins (MF) are a class of impregnation resins for wood modification that are made by reacting melamine with formaldehyde...

density fiberboard). Melamine boards range in quality primarily because of the amount of resin deposited on the base material. Some melamine boards remain clean...

company's classic product: a heat-resistant, wipe-clean laminate of paper with melamine resin. Formica Group, a division of the Dutch company Broadview Holdings...

made in its three Beijing factories, on suspicion of contamination with melamine. The recall affected the mainland China markets, Taiwan, Hong Kong and...

amount sold. The restaurant was in the news in Japan for serving pizza with melamine-tainted dough from China in October 2008. April 1968 - Yasuhiko Shōgaki...

a clear protective layer. The inner core layer is usually composed of melamine resin and fiber board materials. There is a European Standard No. EN 13329:2000...

2007 and the 2008 China milk scandal in which the industrial chemical melamine was added to the milk or glutens to increase the measured "protein". The...

Melmac is: A brand name of dinnerware molded from Melamine resin, made by American Cyanamid, most popular in the 1940s through the 1960s. The fictional...

Takiko; Tanimura, Akio (1986). "Migration of melamine and formaldehyde from tableware made of melamine resin". Food Additives and Contaminants. 3 (1):...

phenol, urea, or melamine, formaldehyde produces, respectively, hard thermoset phenol formaldehyde resin, urea formaldehyde resin, and melamine resin. These...

& Gamble. It was used for an all-purpose cleaner and later also for a melamine foam abrasive sponge. The all-purpose cleaner was originally formulated...

infants and killing six. Their infant formula had been adulterated with melamine, which can cause kidney stones and other complications. It received a bankruptcy...

condensation products, including cyanuric acid (CNOH)3, guanidine HNC(NH2)2, and melamine. In aqueous solution, urea slowly equilibrates with ammonium cyanate. This...

It is mainly used in the production of resins when combined with urea, melamine, and phenol (e.g., Bakelite). It is a precursor to methylene diphenyl diisocyanate...

located in Rădăuți, Romania with a capacity of 600,000 cubic meters of melamine faced chipboard. At the Romanian site the company operates a combined heat...

ingredient in pet foods. Wheat gluten imported from China adulterated with melamine used in pet foods was considered to have caused harm in many countries...