pale yellow, odourless crystalline solid that has been used as a military explosive, as a yellow dye, and as an antiseptic
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Picric acid (from Greek pikros, “bitter”) was so named by the 19th-century French chemist Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas because of the extremely bitter taste of its yellow aqueous solution.
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