How To Use Picric acid In A Sentence
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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
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~ -- 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
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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.
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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
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To visualize individual cells with their own discharged trichocysts, a saturated solution of picric acid is used as a fixing secretagogue.
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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
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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
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In Warspite, the chief surgeon ordered burns to be dressed with pre-prepared picric acid gauze.
Castles of Steel
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“The effect was agonizing — picric acid only aggravated the burns — and the patients tore off the bandages.”
Castles of Steel
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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
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The FBI received a report on 1 February from a chemical supplier about an attempt by Aldawsari to buy concentrated phenol, which has legitimate uses but can also can be used to make the explosive trinitrophenol, known as picric acid.
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The discharge or nondischarge of the trichocyst was observed by adding a drop of saturated picric acid to the cells.
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Scheele then poured sulfuric acid into one end and into the other end chlorate of potash or picric acid or some other flammable chemical.
Chad Millman: Bottle Bombs: It's 1916 all over Again
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The FBI said the North Carolina company reported the attempts to purchase 1.3 gallons of phenol, a chemical that can be used to make the explosive trinitrophenol, also known as TNP, or picric acid.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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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
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One should strive to make sure these explosives are free from sulfur, sulfides, and picric acid.
A Large Collection of Incendiary Information (Part II)
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Where destruction pure and simple is desired, the shell is charged with a high explosive such as picric acid or T.N.T., the colloquial abbreviation for the devastating agent scientifically known as "Trinitrotoluene," the base of which, in common with all the high explosives used by the different powers and variously known as lyddite, melinite, cheddite, and so forth, is picric acid.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
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It is thus obvious that picric acid is much less explosive than the nitric ethers, such as nitro-glycerol and nitro-cellulose, and very considerably less explosive than the nitrogen compounds and fulminates.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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Picric acid is a by-product from the manufacturing of explosives.
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[Lyddite is an explosive made largely of picric acid, which is yellow.]
Castles of Steel
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Nitrogen is an important component of common chemical explosives like TNT, nitroglycerin, gunpowder, guncotton, nitrocellulose, picric acid, and ammonium nitrate.
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Picric acid is a by-product from the manufacturing of explosives.
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Of the nitro-compounds, trinitrophenol, C_6H_2 (NO_2) _3OH (picric acid), was investigated.
Synthetic Tannins
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Nitrogen is an important component of common chemical explosives like TNT, nitroglycerin, gunpowder, guncotton, nitrocellulose, picric acid, and ammonium nitrate.
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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
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Another treatment which has some merit, and which has long enjoyed a certain vogue among both medical men and the laity, is a combination of equal parts of lime-water with either olive or linseed oil; this is called carron oil and is applied in the same way as the picric acid solution.
Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
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The thermodynamics and dynamics for adsorption of picric acid onto polyamide under static conditions were studied and the influence of temperature on the adsorption was also inspected.
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Where destruction pure and simple is desired, the shell is charged with a high explosive such as picric acid or T.N.T., the colloquial abbreviation for the devastating agent scientifically known as "Trinitrotoluene," the base of which, in common with all the high explosives used by the different powers and variously known as lyddite, melinite, cheddite, and so forth, is picric acid.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
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J. and I have just discovered what the eco-nuts who sell us our henna have not been telling us about the ingredients for some time: The red henna J. prefers isn't actually henna, it's italian senna, which isn't a hair dye at all, just a mild colourant and conditioner, and the deep red colour comes from an un-stated amount of sodium picramate added to the mix - and sodium picramate is a really unstable relative of picric acid, one of the all time unstable dangerous explosives.
Murphy's Law x 2
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Smokeless powders came into use, the explosive properties of picric acid were discovered, and melanite, ballistite, and cordite appeared in the last quarter of the century, so that by 1890 nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin-base powders had generally replaced black powder as a propellant.
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
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Where destruction pure and simple is desired, the shell is charged with a high explosive such as picric acid or T.N.T., the colloquial abbreviation for the devastating agent scientifically known as "Trinitrotoluene," the base of which, in common with all the high explosives used by the different powers and variously known as lyddite, melinite, cheddite, and so forth, is picric acid.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
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He sprayed a picric acid and alum solution into the noses of forty-six hundred Alabamians, to no good end.
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Explosives based on ammonium picrate and picric acid were also used by the military.
