NOUN
- a yellow toxic highly explosive strong acid; used in high explosives and as a dye and in chemical reactions
How To Use picric acid In A Sentence
- In NYC the Mont Blanc was loaded with (amongst other things) benzol, 544,000 kilograms of highly explosive picric acid, and 226,797 kilograms of TNT. The Week of Death - Day 4
- ~ -- Picric acid forms insoluble salts with many of the alkaloids, and picric acid may be determined in the following manner: -- To the solution of picric acid, or a picrate, add a solution of sulphate of cinchonine acidulated with H_ {2} SO_ {4}. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
- Picric acid or lyddite, used in the Japanese explosive shimose, and tetryl were also highly sensitive, the latter having a higher shattering effect than TNT.
- Finally, if the amount of picric acid be still further increased under these conditions, it will undergo partial decomposition and volatilise, but will not even deflagrate. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
- To visualize individual cells with their own discharged trichocysts, a saturated solution of picric acid is used as a fixing secretagogue.
- Picric acid, when heated, burns with a luminous and smoky flame, and may be burnt away in large quantity without explosion; but the mere contact of certain metallic oxides, with picric acid, in the presence of heat, develops powerful explosives, which are capable of acting as detonators to an indefinite amount of the acid, wet or dry, which is within reach of their detonative influence. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
- A saturated solution is prepared by dissolving 140 grains of recrystallized picric acid (carbazotic acid, or, more correctly, trinitrophenol) in 1 pint of water with heat, and decanting the clear solution. Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
- In Warspite, the chief surgeon ordered burns to be dressed with pre-prepared picric acid gauze. Castles of Steel
- “The effect was agonizing — picric acid only aggravated the burns — and the patients tore off the bandages.” Castles of Steel
- The FBI says phenol has common legitimate uses but can be used to make trinitrophenol, an explosive also known as picric acid. FBI Arrests a Suspected Bomb Plotter
