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glyoxilin|glaɪˈɒksɪlɪn| Also -yline. [? after glyoxylic (see glyoxal).] The name of an explosive (see quots.).
1875Ure's Dict. Arts, etc. (ed. 7) II. 321 Glyoxiline consists of a mixture of gun-cotton pulp and saltpetre converted into porous pellets, which are saturated with nitro-glycerine. 1883Majendie in Fortn. Rev. May 645 Sir Frederick Abel's ‘glyoxilin’ (gun-cotton saturated with nitro-glycerine). |