picric acid

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   a yellow toxic highly explosive strong acid; used in high explosives and as a dye and in chemical reactions

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Questions about picric acid

What does picric acid mean?

picric acid means "a yellow toxic highly explosive strong acid; used in high explosives and as a dye and in chemical reactions".

Is picric acid a common word?

picric acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.