Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The trade-name of an explosive, one grade of which consists of 30 per cent. nitroglycerin, 49 per cent. potassium chlorate, 7 per cent. potassium nitrate, 9 per cent. wood-pulp, and 5 per cent. magnesium carbonate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A particular
explosive containingnitroglycerin .
Etymologies
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Coined by its inventor, Captain Bjorkman, presumably from vigor + -ite.
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Examples
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"Dynamite or rhexite or meganite or carbonite or stonite or vigorite or cordite or ballistite or thorite or maxamite ----"
Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures Edgar Franklin 1918
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