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picric acid
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picric acid /pic·ric ac·id/ (-rik) trinitrophenol.
pic·ric acid (pkrk)
n.
A poisonous, explosive, yellow, crystalline acid used as an application in burns, eczema, erysipelas, and pruritus and in the manufacture of dyes and explosives.
picric acid
a substance used as dye, tissue fixative, antiseptic, astringent and stimulant of epithelialization; it can be detonated on percussion or by heating above 570°F (300°C). Called also trinitrophenol.
picric acid
2,4,6 Trinitrophenol Occupational medicine A strong–pK 1.0 acid once used as a dye, an antiseptic, and fixative; when dry, it is explosive, and used in manufacturing explosives and rocket fuels; occupational exposure results in a yellowish skin
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For example, when the British introduced lyddite, a newly invented explosive which had been used with terrible effect on the Dervishes in Omdurman, Reitz records that the Boers "made light of it and dubbed the shells 'little niggers' (ktein kafferkies)" (52) War jokes lifted the spirits of the men, like their referring to "Martial Law" as a girl called "Martjie Louw".
"The terrible laughter of the Afrikaner"--towards a social history of ... by Swart, Sandra / Journal of Social History
After a while stretcher bearers, who behaved magnificently, I never admired anything more in my life, came along, dodging from man to man, patching them up with field dressings, helping them into shell holes and carrying on as though it was Hampstead Heath on manoeuvres days, while the whole time heavy lyddite shrapnel was bursting overhead and the machine guns were playing as freely as ever.
THE DAY I WAS SHOT IN THE SOMME; A COVENTRY SOLDIER'S LETTERS FROM ... by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
The ridges of the hills sparkled and eruptions of brown smoke from the lyddite shell like miniature volcanos.
The Captured German Ships in Egypt and the Dardanelles by Guthrie, Gus / Sabretache
 
 
 
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