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Definition of Picrates
1. picrate [n] - See also: picrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picrates
Literary usage of Picrates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Method for the Identification of Pure Organic Compounds by a Systematic by Samuel Parsons Mulliken (1916)
"As derivatives they have the advantage over many of the corresponding picrates
of being more stable and less soluble, and in melting more sharply and with ..."
2. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Charles D. Demond (1905)
"The alkaline salts of this body (called picrates) are powerful explosives.
Ammonium picrate mixed with potassium nitrate has been proposed as a military ..."
3. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1887)
"picrates. 980 Picric acid forms salts having a yellow colour, which, for the most
part, crystallize well and are explosive. ..."
4. Nitro-explosives: A Practical Treatise Concerning the Properties by Percy Gerald Sanford (1906)
"... Acid and picrates— Resinous and Tarry Matters—Sulphuric Acid and Hydrochloric
Acid— Oxalic Acid—Nitric Acid—Inorganic Impurities—General Impurities and ..."
5. Nitro-explosives: A Practical Treatise Concerning the Properties by Percy Gerald Sanford (1896)
"... anil Adulterations—Potassium Picrate and picrates of the Alkaloids—Analysis
of Glycerine—Residue, Silver Test, Nitration, Total Acid Equivalent, ..."
6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"This is true, to some extent, even of the alkaline salts, whilst the picrates,
normal and basic, of some of the heavy metals, especially lead, are extremely ..."
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