picric
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of picric
1850–55; < Greek pikr ( ós ) bitter + -ic
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
Piper sat up all night reading chemistry books and announced the next day that the anesthetist was probably using chloropicrin, a heavy, colorless liquid made by chlorinating picric acid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seven days later they dressed his wound with mosquito netting soaked in picric acid.
From Time Magazine Archive
And she fought ultramodern lethal concoctions�TNT, aniline dyes, picric acid, which stained its workers so yellow that they were dubbed "canaries."
From Time Magazine Archive
By a curious ordinance of fate, picric acid, one of the most deadly explosives known, also provides a medical dressing for the alleviation of the pain which in another form it may have caused.
From Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships by Domville-Fife, Charles W. (Charles William)
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