A chemical compound formed by the reaction of formaldehyde with hydroxylamine, used in chemical synthesis and analysis.
From formaldehyde (form- + aldehyde) + oxime (from ox- + imine, a nitrogen-containing organic group). This is systematic chemical nomenclature.
Formoxime shows how chemists name discoveries in real-time—they identify what reacted with what (formaldehyde + hydroxylamine made this) and stitch the names together, creating self-describing compound names that are essentially chemical formulas spelled out.
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