Crossword clues for picric
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Picric \Pi"cric\, a. [Gr. ? bitter.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.
Note: Picric acid is obtained by treating phenol with strong nitric acid, as a brilliant yellow crystalline substance, C6H2(NO2)3.OH. It is used in dyeing silk and wool, and also in the manufacture of explosives, as it is very unstable when heated. Called also trinitrophenol, and formerly carbazotic acid.
Wiktionary
a. Designating a type of bitter yellow acid.
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Usage examples of "picric".
After chow that evening, Private Jarry retired behind the bicycle shop and injected more picric acid beneath the skin of his arms and legs.
Pett about the difference between picric acid and trinitrotoluene, than which a pleasanter topic for the luncheon table could hardly be selected, and the voice of Clarence Renshaw rose above all other competing noises, as he spoke of the functions of the trochaic spondee.
Consequently, said guildmistress not only destroyed Gurgus Peak, but also poisoned a good deal of the kingdom with picric acid.
Ammonium nitrate has not only been used in dynamite, but also in many other different explosive compounds, including NG picric acid, and coal dust.
As a rule they are iron rust, picric acid, turmeric, fustic, weld, Persian berries or quercitron.
In order to recognize the different colors, the presence or absence of iron rust and picric acid must first be determined.
If picric acid and iron rust are both absent, apply a bit of ordinary wetted soap: 1.
But most of them are built around one or more of half a dozen or so basic compounds - ammonium nitrate, picric acid, nitroglycerin, PETN, RDX, TNT.
At least you do not have to live with the effects of picric exposure, as the others will.
It flared hotly, like gunpowder ignited in the open, searing the side of the island and three men standing below, cracking the glass in Fly Control and then rolled and tumbled down the flight deck, spraying out the white picric acid of its explosive filler.
Uranium salt solution, the second holds the four hundred fifty to six hundred fifty pound propulsion charge consisting of coal oxide and picric acid, and the third contains the ignition mechanism believed to comprise radio-active salt solution and quicksilver.
In the small kitchen area of Room 603 Yousef had boxes and jars full of sodium chlorate, nitrobenzene, sulfur, picric acid, acetate, sodium carbonate, perhydrol, hydrogen peroxide, and methenane, used in the manufacture of the high explosive RDX.
You put sulfuric acid in one, picric acid in the other, cork both ends with wax plugs--and then all you have to do is wait.
It contained lead tubes inset with copper disks of varying thickness, a glass jar full of oily-looking sulfuric acid, and another jar that held a powdery, yellowish substance, presumably picric acid.
Lyddite, mentioned occasionally as one of the modern death-dealing explosives, has for a base picric acid.