Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or derived from picric acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry The
univalent radical , analogous tophenyl , derived frompicric acid
Etymologies
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picric + -yl
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Examples
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Guinea pigs fed by mouth with, for example, picryl chloride, no longer develop a cutaneous hypersensitivity of the delayed type upon the application of that substance to the skin.
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Several crystalline polymorphs have been discovered for picryl bromide.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue 2008
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