Potassium picrate

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Kaliumpikrat is a yellow explosive powder with a bitter taste. Kaliumpikrat is a salt of picric acid with a primary explosive properties, such as all of the metal salts of the picric acid. Soluble it is in acetone and ethanol, in cold water, it hardly dissolves, it can be seen a yellow color, in hot water it dissolves only moderately yet. Under a 2 kg drop hammer it explodes with 50 % probability at a drop height of 21 cm. Signified, by neutralizing an aqueous solution of picric acid with potassium hydroxide. Pyrotechnic use it is mixed with potassium nitrate in Heulsätzen.