picrate
Americannoun
noun
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any salt or ester of picric acid, such as sodium picrate
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a charge-transfer complex formed by picric acid
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of picrate
First recorded in 1865–70; picr(ic acid) + -ate 2
Example Sentences
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These carried picrate of potash shells that were immensely powerful.
From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
Brugère's powder is composed of ammonium picrate and nitre, the proportions being 54 per cent. picrate of ammonia and 46 per cent. potassic nitrate.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
Suzuki, Shimamura and Odake also used the phosphotungstic precipitation method and claimed to have prepared the crystalline antineuritic substance which they called oryzanin in the form of a crystalline picrate.
From The Vitamine Manual by Eddy, Walter H.
Picric acid is a crystalline bitter product extracted from coal-tar, and forming, in combination with potash, a yellow salt known as picrate of potash.
From The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger by Verne, Jules
A quick repetition of the picrate shells seemed to affect the spirit of the attack.
From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
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