Picric Acid Definition

Picric Acid 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.

• Hot concentrated nitric acid oxidizes it to picric acid and oxalic acid, whilst on treatment with hydrochloric acid and potassium chlorate it yields chloranil (tetrachloroquinone).