HAZLETON – Firefighters and police responded to two homes where owners discovered picric acid in old mining medical kits Friday morning, following two incidents with the explosive substance in ...

HAZLETON – Firefighters and police responded to two homes where owners discovered picric acid in old mining medical kits Friday morning, following two incidents with the explosive substance in ...

HADLEY – The discovery of a potentially explosive chemical known as picric acid in a barn on Hibbard Lane Thursday afternoon prompted emergency officials to close Route 47 for over four hours.

Picric acid, it turns out, can spontaneously combust or explode unless diluted by 30% with water, according to a hazard sheet from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Weld County's bomb squad exercised extreme care for a package the size of a credit card: picric acid gauze pads found in a 1930s Girl Scout first aid kit.

(FOX40.COM) — An explosive chemical, picric acid, found in a Downtown Oroville antique shop prompted a neighborhood evacuation advisory and barricade from law enforcement. On Friday around 1:… ...

Gwinn-Villaroel said Tuesday the picric acid has already been disposed of. "This structure and its contents are more secure now than they have been over the past several years," Greenberg said.

IN a previous paper1, it was reported that a 360-mµ band of picric acid in water was found to shift to the red by about 35 mµ by addition of a concentrated solution of sodium hydroxide.

The bridge was closed for hours and a mandatory evacuation order was issued for the area around the Bedford Institute of Oceanography after a quantity of dry picric acid was found. Watch Amy Smith ...