toluol

By the end of 1914, the coal-based production of toluol was inadequate, and Britain was perilously close to running out of explosives.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

The parts of the toluol plant, meanwhile, were transported to Britain, and were re-erected in Somerset within weeks.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

The parts of the toluol plant, meanwhile, were transported to Britain, and were re-erected in Somerset within weeks.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

By the end of 1914, the coal-based production of toluol was inadequate, and Britain was perilously close to running out of explosives.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

It needed toluol from oil, but there were no facilities to make it.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

It needed toluol from oil, but there were no facilities to make it.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

I am sitting on enough toluol to blow up this countryside.

Greenmantle 2005

Mowbray patented a mixture of 3 parts nitro-toluol to 7 of nitro-glycerine, also in the proportions of 1 to

Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

It is well known that in coal-tar is found a series of ammonia-like bases, aniline or amido-benzol, toluidine or amido-toluol, and xylidine or amido-xylol, which are utilized practically in the manufacture of the so-called aniline dye-colors.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various

From the hill above Baxter a sniper daily fired with a long range rifle at the toluol tank in the center of one of the mills, and had so far escaped capture, as the tank had escaped damage.

A Poor Wise Man Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917