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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In early chemistry, a mixture of three parts of niter, one of sulphur, and one of sawdust, which, pressed into a nut-shell about a small silver coin and set on fire, burned fiercely and produced so high a temperature as to melt the coin.
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