Pico
one of the Azore Islands, consisting of a single volcanic mountain, which terminates in a peak (El Pico) sisting of a single volcanic mountain, PICO, one of the Azore Islands, con- 7,613 feet high that emits smoke and Pyrenees, at Orthez and before Toulouse. lava. It is fertile and well wooded, and produces an excellent wine, of which 25,000 pipes are exported annually.
Area, 175 square miles; pop about 30,about 1,500.
PICRATE, 000. Chief town, Villa di Lajuna; pop. 1815. with a base. or CARBAZOTATE, a Explosive powders, almost entirely composed of picrate of potash, and nitrate of potash, were used in the Franco- Prussian War of 1870 with the most appalling effect. Derivatives of picrate were used for explosives in vast quantities during the World War (1914-1918).