chatelot16 wrote:picric acid is the same thing, dissolved in water, at low concentration there is no risk of making an explosive (melinite)
The risk is to forget a badly closed bottle and that all the water evaporates.
There is picric acid in the solid state which can explode simply under the friction of the opening of the stopper.
chatelot16 wrote:Picric acid is frowned upon, it is said to be toxic or carcinogenic, but it is not burned every day, and I find it so effective that I will not deprive myself of it if I burn myself another day ...
It is not "frowned upon", it is even recognized as very effective against burns (I believe that some hospitals still use it).
It is, to my knowledge, "just" the conservation problem (associated with the precautionary principle that governs us
) who had it withdrawn from the over-the-counter sale (perhaps also the possibility of easily making it a homemade bomb by buying a few hundred bottles
)