Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An explosive mixture, containing 55 per cent. of nitroglycerin, mixed with silicious earth, coal, barium nitrate, sulphur, and sodium bicarbonate, used principally in blasting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See
nitroglycerin .
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- noun An
explosive compound ofnitroglycerin .
Etymologies
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French
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Examples
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After becoming acquainted with gun-cotton, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, lithofracteur, and other combinations of powerfully-explosive agents, I took to searching for and inventing methods by which these might be utilised.
mollusque commented on the word lithofracteur
An explosive compound of nitroglycerin.
January 22, 2008