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Why was picric used in treating burns?
i truelywanna know why was picric acid used to treat burns?
What is the picricacid formual?
picric acid (or 2,4,6-trinitrophenol) is more acidic than benzoic acid The pKa or picric acid is 0.3 and that of benzoic acid is 4.2
Which is more acidic hydrochloric acid or picric acid?
Hydrochoric acid is more acidic than Picric acid.Added: Ka(Picric acid) = 0.38, Ka(HCl) >>1
What is IUPAC name of picric acid?
The IUPAC name for picric acid is 2,4,6 trinitrophenol
How picric acid is strong acid?
for three electron withdrawing nitro groups, picric acid is highly acidic
Why are picric acid used in the treatment of burns?
Picric acid reduced pain and infection and allowed the formation of a scab under which healing took place.Using a one percent solution of picric acid, the wound was cleansed and then all blisters were pricked to release the serum (blister fluid), taking care not to remove the blister itself. The burn was covered with sterilized gauze soaked in the picric acid solution. The gauze was padded with cotton wool and held in place with a light bandage. After three or four days, the dressing was soaked off and the wound redressed.
In real picric acid is not acid..then why it called acid?
Picric acid is acidic, as it has a fairly acidic phenolic proton. However, picric acid is not a carboxylic acid. Nevertheless, it is still called 'acid' because of its acidic proton, just as phenol was once called 'carbolic acid'.
What is the mass percent of nitrogen in the dyeing agent picric acid (C6H3N3O7)?
The percentage of nitrogen in the picric acid is 18,34 %.
How will you prepare picric acid from benzene?
React benzene with conc. H2SO4 and then with conc. HNO3. The resultant would be picric acid
Why direct nitration is used in picric acid?
in picric acid we cannot used direct nitration because of the phenol is very sensitive in oxidation of nitrate, to overcome this problem, we used a sulfuric acid added to phenol before the nitric acid. the reaction between NO2 and SO2 are reversible so the sulphate exchange with nitrate becoming tri nitrophenol
Picric acid test?
In microbiology, microbial pathology and taxonomy:A variety of phenotypic tests can be used to identify and distinguish Mycobacteria strains and species from each other, one of them is thePicrate tolerance test: Ability to grow on Sauton agar containing picric acid (0.2% w/v) after 3 weeks
What is another term for Ferrous Nitrite?
Picric acid
