gelignite

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Having toppled Spin and Pitchfork with shockwaves from accidental gelignite, the indietronic headbangers would seem to have more tricks up their sleeve than Travis Bickle in attack mode, even going so far as to swap instruments during gigs to keep critics from shuffling to the bar.

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  1. noun An explosive mixture composed of nitroglycerine, guncotton, wood pulp, and potassium nitrate.

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  • Swiftly he told Stephen about the missing gelignite, the tourists' pictures, the videotape. —  THE ANASTASIA SYNDROME AND OTHER STORIES
  • If Watkins only supplied the gelignite, it took a fairly decent mechan­ical ability to set them up so that they escaped detection I can't find that significant, sir, ; Sloane protested. —  THE ANASTASIA SYNDROME AND OTHER STORIES
  • (Next issue Skywatch will attempt to put out a kitchen fire with gelignite.) —  TFormers.com
  • Having toppled Spin and Pitchfork with shockwaves from accidental gelignite, the indietronic headbangers would seem to have more tricks up their sleeve than Travis Bickle in attack mode, even going so far as to swap instruments during gigs to keep critics from shuffling to the bar. —  Cokemachineglow.com
  • The missing stock of explosives includes 198 kilograms of gelignite which was to be used in quarries in the area. —  Sri Lanka News - ColomboPage.com
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  1. gel(atin) + Latin ignis, fire + -ite1.

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  1. ge (latin) + Latin lignum, wood, + -ite.
 

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/ˈdʒɛlɪgnaɪt/
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