"mellon" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1857, William Allen Miller, Elements of Chemistry: Part III, Organic Chemistry, page 603:",
          "text": "Mellon (C₁₈N₁₃; Liebig).— This anomalous compound was originally supposed by Liebig to contain C₆N₄, but he has recently repeated and varied his experiments upon it, and has altered its formula as above.",
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          "ref": "1916, Victor von Richter, Organic chemistry, volume I, Chemistry of the Aliphatic Series, page 473:",
          "text": "It sublimes on heating and decomposes into mellon and NH₃.",
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        "A poorly characterized cyclic cyanide; [(CN)₂NH]₃, C₆N₄ or similar."
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        "(rare, chemistry) A poorly characterized cyclic cyanide; [(CN)₂NH]₃, C₆N₄ or similar."
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          "word": "melon"
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