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  • noun Plural form of picrate.

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Examples

  • There was no paper or ion-exchange chromatography, and purines were isolated and separated as copper and silver salts, or picrates, by fractional crystallization.

    Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy 1988

  • While safer than gallicof hulas. las in this respect, care should be taken to keep it away from other metals such as lead, because some other metallic picrates are etrate mely sensitive.

    Terror in Argentina Rosenblum, Mort 1976

  • C_ {6} H_ {2} (NO_ {2}) _ {3} OH, which is used very extensively as an explosive, both as picric acid and in the form of picrates.

    Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

  • ~Sulphuric Acid, Hydrochloric Acid, and Oxalic Acid~, and their salts are detected by adding to the filtered aqueous solution of the sample solutions of the picrates of barium, silver, and calcium.

    Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

  • These salts are readily made by boiling picric acid with the carbonates of the respective metals and filtering: other soluble salts of these methods may be substituted for the picrates, but they are less satisfactory.

    Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

  • Messrs Désignolles and Brugère have introduced military powders, consisting of mixtures of potassium and ammonium picrates with nitrate of potassium.

    Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

  • If I don't, ride as hard as you can go to that White Rock, and if you reach Mur give my compliments to the Child of Kings, or whatever she is called, and say that although I have been prevented from waiting upon her, Sergeant Quick understands as much about picrates as I do.

    Queen Sheba's Ring Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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