UREA N46 GRANULAR

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Composition and Formula

Urea, also known as carbamide, is an organic compound with

chemical formula CO(NH2)2. This amide has two NH2 groups

joined by a carbonyl (C=O) functional group.

Urea serves an important role in the metabolism of nitrogen

containing compounds by animals and is the main nitrogen

containing substance in the urine of mammals.

It is a

colour less, odourless solid, highly soluble in water, and

practically non toxic (LD50 is 15 g/kg for rats). Dissolved in water, it

is neither acidic nor alkaline. The body uses it in many processes,

most notably nitrogen excretion.

The liver forms it by combining two ammonia molecules (NH3)

with a carbon dioxide (CO2) molecule in the urea cycle. Urea is

widely used in fertilizers as a source of nitrogen (N) and is an

important raw material for the chemical industry.

Friedrich

Wöhler’s discovery, in 1828, that Urea can be produced

from inorganic starting materials, was an important conceptual

milestone in chemistry. It showed, for the first time, that a

substance, previously known only as a by product of life, could be

synthesized in the laboratory, without biological starting materials,

thereby contradicting the widely held doctrine vitalism, which

stated that only living things could produce the chemicals of life.