The gowns of the orderlies were stained and bespattered with blood and yellowpicric acid.
The head was washed and shaved and then painted with picric acid.
The shattered thigh was painted with picric acid and the tourniquet tightened above the injury.
If picric acid and iron rust are both absent, apply a bit of ordinary wetted soap: 1.
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.
Apply a weak solution of cyanide of potassium; picric acid will yield a blood-red coloration.
He admitted he knew that picric acid was recognized as a very powerful explosive; but he was sure of one thing--that the picric acid that had been sent him was not an explosive.
The friction from the barrel set off this picrate of lead, which in turn detonated the picric acid; and the whole five tons went off with such violence as amply to demonstrate its explosive qualities.
No," said the purchaser, "that picric acid you have sent me is not an explosive.
That day, during the purchaser's absence, some workmen were moving a barrel of the picric acid in order to let a plumber mend a small leak in a lead pipe, which supplied the place with water.
The following day the purchaser returned to the importer with the complaint that that picric acid sold him was the most sensitive, most violent and treacherous explosive material in the world.
Over and about this lead pipe had been spilled a considerable quantity of picric acid, which had formed picrate of lead with the lead pipe.
From carbolic acid are obtained both Aurin and picric acid, and here is the actual quantity of Aurin obtainable (1-1/4 lb.
We do not see a pure yellow, then, in picric acid, but yellow with a considerable amount of white.
We will take a cylinder glass full of picric acid in water, and of a yellow colour.
It has been found that ten minims of a cold saturated solution of picric acid are rather more than sufficient for decomposition by one drachm of a solution of grape-sugar in the proportion of one grain to the ounce.
Faint evidence of the presence of this body was also presented by picric acid and Mehu's test.
So, too, the albumen removed by coagulation and filtration, if thoroughly washed, does not give any red reaction if boiled with picric acid and potash diluted in the same proportion as when testing for sugar.
For he has shown that kreatinin strikes in a few seconds a red color with the cold alkaline picric solution, which is quickened by heat.
It reduces the carmine and alkaline picricacid solution, and is therefore not recognizable by these.
Where destruction pure and simple is desired, the shell is charged with a high explosive such aspicric acid or T.
If the filtrate is perfectly clear gelatin is absent and picric acid may be added without producing any noticeable effect.
To a little of this filtrate in a test tube add the same volume of a saturated aqueous solution of picric acid.
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.
The explosive power of this substance is inferior to that of gun-cotton or of dynamite, but far greater than that of ordinary gunpowder; one grain of picric powder producing an effect equal to that of thirteen grains of common powder.
Later it was found advantageous to use calcium picrate instead of picric acid.
These materials consisted of smokeless powder, used as a propellant to drive the shell from the guns, and of picric acid, used as a high-powered detonative to burst over the enemy lines.
Picric acid as such is not used by this country directly for military purposes.
Factories for the production of immense additional quantities of picric acid, powder, and other materials were built by our War Department to fill the deficiencies in the military programs of our associates in the war.
Bleaching powder, lime, and picricacid are received by rail.
In the mixers appearing in the right foreground lime, picric acid, and water are mixed to form a solution of calcium picric, and bleach and water are mixed to form a cream.
Phenol, one of the essentials in the manufacture of picric acid, was another raw material, the production of which was greatly augmented.
Platinic chloride, picric or carbazotic acid, and auric chloride, however, do not give precipitates, except in concentrated solutions.
A sublimate of strychnia touched with a drop of dilute picric acid solution, strength 1 in 250, gives microscopic arborescent crystallizations of peculiar curved forms.
A hot solution of potassium cyanide mixed with picric acid gives a deep blood-red —“picrocyanic” acid).
Picric acid, a saturated aqueous solution, gives precipitates in neutral solutions of morphia and atropia.
On the surface Fay's offense seemed merely one of harboring and using explosives without a license; but police investigations of ship explosions had proceeded on the theory that the purchases of picric acid were associated with them.
Their arrests were the outcome of a police search for two Germans who secretly sought to purchase picric acid, a component of high explosives which had become scarce since the war began.
Successive applications of sulphate of iron andpicric yellow will produce the latter colour, and a vegetable green, which, however, is not very durable, is made from buckthorn berries.
As already stated, a coating of picricyellow over the latter will give a dull green.
When picric acid is treated with hot sulphuric acid and formaldehyde gradually added, a dark coloured water-soluble condensation product is formed which strongly precipitates gelatine.
Pure beer is decoloured and deodorised by animal charcoal; but beer containing picric acid, when thus treated, retains a lemon-yellow colour and the odour.
It resembles the iodide green, but is precipitated by alkaline carbonates and picric acid.
The fibres of white or light-coloured silk are similarly stained by a solution of picric acid.
A few drops of the urine are carefully added to a solution of picric acid contained in a small conical test glass.
The principal use of crude picric acid is for dyeing yellow.
The pure picrate of potassium thus obtained is decomposed by hydrochloric acid, and the liberatedpicric acid is purified by two crystallisations.
A solution of picric acid in alcohol is an excellent test for potassa, if there be not too much water present, as it throws down a yellow crystalline precipitate with that alkali, but forms a very soluble salt with soda.
Of the syrupy residue left after this evaporation, a small portion is diluted with three times its bulk of water, and tested for picric acid, according to the directions already given.
The picric acid is purified by neutralising the yellow mass with potassa, and crystallising twice out of water.
By treating picric acid with cyanide of potassium a very explosive salt is obtained, used to dye wool a dark maroon colour.
Unbleached sheep's wool, boiled for six or ten minutes, and then washed, takes a canary-yellow colour if picric acid be present.
A portion of the liquor agitated with a little solution of diacetate of lead loses its bitter flavour if it depends on hops, but retains it if it depends on picric acid.
A yellow crystalline mass is deposited, which consists of picricacid with small quantities of oxalic and nitrobenzoic acids.
Platinum chloride does not give a precipitate with sodium chloride; neither does picric acid, perchlorate of ammonium, nor tartaric acid.
Picric acid patients can only see clearly at very close range, often at only five inches from the eye; Natrum sulph.
Jones, who says: "Onosmodium Virginianum in its primary action seems directly opposite to Picric acid.
The erethism of sexual debility is plainly evinced in Picric acid, and the ultimate asthenia is as really discovered in Onosmodium Virginianum.
The fusion of the compound of benzene and picric acid with separation of the latter is analogous to the (partial) fusion of Glauber's salt with separation of anhydrous sodium sulphate.
Picric acid and benzene can form a compound, which, however, can exist only in contact with solutions containing excess of benzene.
When the temperature is raised, a point (K) is reached at which the compound melts with separation of solid picric acid.
They are yellow oily or crystalline substances and have well-defined acid properties, as picric acid.
It consists of the potassium salt of a complex cyanogen derivative of picric acid.
The hypothetical radical ofpicric acid, analogous to phenyl.
Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter.
Picric acid in some form or other is used in nearly all countries for filling high-explosive shell.
The melted material is poured into the shell by means of a bronze funnel, which also forms the space for the exploder of picric powder.
The picric acid is melted in an oven, the temperature being carefully limited.
The French melinite and the Italian pertite are believed to be forms of picric acid.
In filling the shell great precautions are necessary to prevent the melted lyddite (picric acid) from coming in contact with certain materials such as combinations of lead, soda, &c.
Picric acid can also be obtained from it by first treating acetylene with sulphuric acid, converting the product into phenol by solution in potash and then treating the phenol with fuming nitric acid.
A bomb filled with picric acid had been thrown by an Anarchist, and when the smoke cleared, the shattered remains of thirty-four constables lay strewn upon the roadway!
It was a huge and curiously-shaped air-ship, and was to be used for dropping great charges of melinite and steel bombs filled with picric acid into the handsome historic city of Edinburgh!
Its purpose was to corner the immediate supplies of American phenol in order to prevent its manufacture into high explosives, including the well-known picric acid.
Picric acid, chlorine, and lime were required, all three being normal raw materials or products of the industry.
As late as 1912 Germany still depended on other countries, chiefly England, for her phenol, the basic raw material for picric acid as well as a dye necessity.
Mélinite D is simply picric acid, but Mélinite O contains also a little Crésilite 2 (q.
Picric acid has been called by this name in Sweden.
Granatfuellung C/88 ispicric acid, and C/02 is trinitro-toluene.
It consists simply of picric acid, which is melted under proper precautions and poured into the shell.
It has been tried as a constituent of a smokeless powder, but it belies its title as it is readily hydrolysed with the formation of picric acid.
Straight up his machine went, but with the picric acid giving added impetus to the explosions in the cylinders the two-seater climbed as rapidly.
He had not reckoned on the picric compound now being used for fuel.
Thirty per cent of picric acid added to the finest, highest grade gasoline was to be used.
Many experiments in search of more powerful explosives resulted in an almost universal adoption of picric acid as the base.
The French began with melinite in 1885, this being a mixture of picric acid and gun-cotton.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
