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Understanding Specific Chemicals Hazard: Picric Acid

2023-11-03T16:54:24+00:00March 24th, 2020|Chemical Risks|

Picric acid is a yellowish crystalline solid. It is used as a high explosive, an oxidant in rocket fuels, in matches and leather processing, in dyes, as a laboratory reagent for serum creatinine analysis in humans and experimental animals, other laboratory uses, metal etching, batteries, as a textile mordant, in manufacture of colored glass, and in the production of picramic acid and chloropicrin.

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