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 1 X   |     another moment the words “picrate of potash” brought me to
 2 X   |       the shoulder.~“Is there picrate of potash on board?” I almost
 3 XI  |    less than thirty pounds of picrate, and had allowed the explosive
 4 XI  |      dropped a word about the picrate that had been deposited
 5 XII |    asked, “is it possible for picrate of potash to ignite without
 6 XII | Under-ordinary circumstances, picrate of potash although not MORE
 7 XIII|       on the poop. As for the picrate, for the time we have quite
 8 XIII|    rises half-mast high.~“The picrate! the picrate!” shrieks the
 9 XIII|       high.~“The picrate! the picrate!” shrieks the madman; “we
10 XIII|    shall all be blown up! the picrate will blow us all up.”~And
11 XIV |    sailors caught his cry of “Picrate, picrate!” and being thus
12 XIV |   caught his cry of “Picrate, picrate!” and being thus for the
13 XIV |        all this time, was the picrate? perhaps, after all, Ruby
14 XVI |      including of course, the picrate; he will next plug up the
15 XX  |    were found was the case of picrate, perfectly intact; having
16 XXI |    that?” asked the captain.~“Picrate of potash,” was the reply.~
17 XXI |        a yellow salt known as picrate of potash. The explosive
18 XXI |      grains of common powder. Picrate is easily ignited by any
19 XXI | explosive matter. Just as the picrate was being introduced into
20 XXI |       will be best to mix the picrate with common powder, as that
21 XXI | addition of gunpowder renders picrate far more effective in blasting
22 XXI |      then the violence of the picrate prepares the way for the