picric acid

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun picric acid has 1 sense

OXFORD DICTIONARY

picric acid, n. a very bitter yellow compound used in dyeing and surgery and in explosives.

Derivative
picrate n.
Etymology
Gk pikros bitter

ROGET THESAURUS

picric acid

Snap

N snap, rapping, decrepitation, crepitation, report, thud, burst, explosion, blast, boom, discharge, detonation, firing, salvo, volley, squib, cracker, firecracker, cherry bomb, M, gun, cap, cap gun, popgun, implosion, bomb burst, atomic explosion, nuclear explosion (arms), gunpowder, dynamite, gun cotton, nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, plastic explosive, plastique, TNT, cordite, trinitrotoluene, picric acid, picrates, mercury fulminate (arms), whack, wham, pow, rapping, Int, kaboom!, whamo!, Heewhack!, pow!.


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