If you decide to dispose of your wet picric acid, several options are available. First, you could try reducing the picric acid to a non-explosive form
using sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide (18). After this treatment, the material will still be toxic and have to be disposed of as hazardous waste.
Alternatively, it could be manifested as a flammable solid for hazardous waste and disposed of by incineration. DO NOT pour it down the drain; it
could react with copper or iron piping to form the explosive salts. |