Picric Definition

Picric Sentence Examples

• The residue is dissolved in alcohol and to the cold saturated solution a cold alcoholic solution of picric acid is added.

• We may also notice the conversion of picric acid.

• On boiling with concentrated nitric acid it yields picric acid.

• The products of the action of nitric acid on cellulose are not nitro compounds in the sense that picric acid is, but are nitrates or nitric esters.

• 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.