picrate

[ pik-reyt ]

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a salt or ester of picric acid.

picrate

/ ˈpɪkreɪt /

noun

1. any salt or ester of picric acid, such as sodium picrate
2. a charge-transfer complex formed by picric acid

Other Words From

• pic·rated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of picrate¹

First recorded in 1865–70; picr(ic acid) + -ate ²

Example Sentences

The ammonium picrate, and recently resorcine, have been used with success.

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Pic′rāted, mixed with a picrate as in a composition for a whistling rocket.—ns.

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They overwhelmed the convent Des Oiseaux and the whole village of Issy, whose principal street was now one heap of ruins, with shells, grenades filled with potassium picrate.

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The fluorene is separated from this by placing it in a freezing mixture, and is then redistilled or crystallized from glacial acetic acid, or purified by means of its picrate.

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We will begin with the simplest example: the use of picro-carmine, a mixture of neutral ammonium carmine and ammonium picrate.

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