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picric acid
noun
- a yellow, crystalline, water-soluble, intensely bitter, poisonous acid, C 6 H 3 N 3 O 7 , used chiefly in explosives.
picric acid
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noun
- a toxic sparingly soluble crystalline yellow acid used as a dye, antiseptic, and explosive. Formula: C 6 H 2 OH(NO 2 ) 3 Systematic name2,4,6-trinitrophenol See also lyddite
picric acid
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- A poisonous, yellow crystalline solid used in explosives, dyes, and antiseptics. Chemical formula: C 6 H 3 N 3 O 7 .
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Origin of picric acid1
Example Sentences
One of the ships was a Belgian relief vessel; the other was the SS Mont-Blanc, a French munitions ship packed to the gills with explosives such as TNT, picric acid, benzol and guncotton.
Recently, eosin has been used to colour red and picric acid for yellow, both well diluted with water.
It was a huge and curiously-shaped air-ship, and was to be used for dropping great charges of m�linite and steel bombs filled with picric acid into the handsome historic city of Edinburgh!
The Vieille powder, invented in 1887 and adopted in France for a magazine rifle, consisted of gelatinized guncotton with a little picric acid.
It has displaced picric acid owing to its superiority, physically and chemically, over that substance.
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