Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A colorless, oily liquid, CH3NO2, used in making dyes and resins, in organic synthesis, as a fuel in race car engines, and as a rocket propellant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A colorless oily compound, CH3NO2, prepared by the action of silver nitrite on methyl iodide. It boils at 101° C. and has acid properties.
Wiktionary
- n. a colourless oily liquid used in organic synthesis, and as a fuel for rockets, racing cars and model aircraft
- n. chemistry the simplest nitroparaffin, CH3NO2
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A nitro derivative of methane (CH3.NO2), obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also
nitrocarbol . It has been used as a rocket fuel and as a gasoline additive to add power to the fuel, especially in racing cars.
Examples
“Besides those two galvanized pipes we've been telling you about all day, they also discovered two vodka bottles that were containing nitromethane, which is very volatile -- very volatile.”
“Now finely powder AN and add 1 part of this "jelly" to 3 parts AN and knead together with gloved hands (I got some terrific headaches after playing with this stuff, not sure what was the cause of it however nitro compounds such as nitromethane and nitroglycerine (from double based powder) are known to cause it in which case the nitroglycerine may have seperated and was absorbed into my skin or too many nitromethane fumes, so i suggest gloves and gas mask) ..”
“The National Hot Rod Association's ban on nitromethane fuels for the 1957-58 drag season was hashed over ... again.”
“Joe wasn't crazy enough to tinker with radical fuel additives like nitromethane for street use.”
“They've brought down and broken the government the way a truckload of fertilizer, nitromethane and Tovex brought down the federal building in Oklahoma.”
“I love the smell of spent gunpowder, a new box of bluerock, WD-40, Fast Orange or any of those shop soaps like that, and leaded fuel, nitromethane, burnt differential oil and all those nice racing smells.”
“What made the OK City bomb so powerful, was that McVeigh used nitromethane instead of diesel fuel.”
“And nitromethane is commonly used in little airplane engines that hobbyists use.”
“They come in droves, hoping for a whiff of nitromethane.”
“In what he admitted was his first operational role for al-Qaeda, KSM was responsible for casing airport security on a flight from Manila to Seoul, while Yousef took a flight from Hong Kong to Taipei.33 KSM took concentrated nitromethane, an inexpensive liquid explosive readily available in the Philippines, and poured out the contents of fourteen contact lens solution bottles, taking care not to break the plastic security seals.”
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