A flammable or explosive preparation, esp. gunpowder.

An explosive mixture of saltpetre, sulphur, and charcoal, chiefly used in discharging projectiles from guns and for blasting.

Potassium nitrate; = nitre, n. 1c Chilior cubic saltpetre: sodium nitrate.

= saltpetre, n. 1.

A name for saltpetre.

Fused nitre cast into cakes or balls.

= saltpetre, n. 1.

An explosive substance, C6H9(NO2)O5, allied to pyroxylin, obtained by treating starch or vegetable fibre with nitric acid.

A highly explosive compound discovered in 1846 by Schönbein, and prepared by steeping cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids, formerly much used…

Gun cotton; = pyroxylin, n. 2.

Any of various forms of nitrocellulose, esp. those with a relatively low nitrogen content, used in explosives, paint, etc. Cf. pyrocellulose n. at…

= nitroglycerine, n. Now historical.

(a) An amine-derivative of xylene, homologous with aniline, occurring in several isomeric modifications having the formula C6H3(CH3)2NH2; used in…

An explosive oily liquid, CH2(NO3)CH(NO3)CH2(NO3), which is obtained by treating glycerol with a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, and is used…

an explosive made, in a similar way to guncotton, by steeping sawdust in nitric and sulphuric acids.

A salt or other derivative of picric acid.

In earlier nomenclature, trinitro- included cases in which the nitrogen atoms of the NO2 groups were attached by oxygen atoms to the carbon atoms…

T. P. Shaffner's term for: = nitroglycerine, n.

The compound ether or ester of glycerol or glycerin with nitric acid, C3H5(O.NO2)3, also called glyceryl trinitrate or more commonly and less…

A high explosive prepared from nitro-glycerine mixed, for greater safety in carriage and use, with some inert absorptive substance.

also simply giant (see quot. 1875).

A powerful explosive consisting of 20 parts of nitre mixed with 30 of fine sawdust, and 50 of nitro-glycerin. Also dualin-dynamite.

A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine absorbed in flour. Obsolete.

A nitroglycerine-based explosive similar to dynamite, used formerly in North America for blasting. Cf. lithofracteur n. at litho-, comb._form affix.

The name of an explosive (see quots.).

an explosive compound of nitroglycerine, used for blasting.

In earlier nomenclature, trinitro- included cases in which the nitrogen atoms of the NO2 groups were attached by oxygen atoms to the carbon atoms…

a name given to various explosives of recent invention; (a) (see quot. 1875); (b) a blasting mixture made of chlorate of potash, potassium…

The name given to an explosive compound (see quot. 1895). More fully, blastingor explosive gelatin.

an explosive prepared from gun-cotton.

A nitro-glycerine explosive used in blasting.

attributive and in other combinations (sense 5), as blasting-charge, blasting-fuse, blasting gelatine, blasting-powder, blasting-tools; blasting cart…

a powerful explosive used in mining operations.

A species of gunpowder (see quot. 1889).

A high explosive composed of pulverized gun-cotton impregnated with barium nitrate; cotton powder. Also attributive.

Nitromagnite; a high explosive (for which the name ‘dynamagnite’ was first proposed), consisting of a mixture of nitro-glycerine and prepared…

A variety of dynamite (see quot. 1889).

An explosive; see quot.

(a) a kind of explosive (see quot. 1884); (b) a crystalline powder used in the preparation of table-jellies.

an explosive consisting of guncotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerine.

A high explosive formed by the reaction of nitrogen dioxide and carbon disulphide.

An explosive consisting of a mixture of powdered guncotton and potassium or barium nitrate. Cf. tonite, n.

An explosive composed of nitroglycerine, charcoal, and saltpetre.

A form of pyroxylin or nitro-cellulose less highly nitrated than common gun-cotton.

An explosive consisting of a mixture of nitric acid and dinitrobenzene.

An explosive consisting of potassium chlorate and nitrobenzene.

A high explosive containing dinitrobenzene mixed with ammonium and potassium nitrates, used formerly for blasting.

A disused kind of explosive (see quot. 1918).

A flameless high explosive based on ammonium nitrate and chlorodinitrobenzene.

an explosive resembling dynamite, in which fine charcoal is used as the absorbent.

A variety of dynamite: see quot. 1889.

(see quots.).

A variety of gelatine dynamite.

(See quot.)

(see quot. 1889).

Any of a number of explosives based on a mixture of components including nitrated organic compounds and sulphur. Now rare.

Any of a number of explosive powders based on nitrocellulose, used chiefly in shotgun cartridges.

gunpowder prepared from nitro-compounds, typically containing either nitroglycerine or nitrocellulose, or both.

An explosive powder composed mainly of potassium chlorate mixed with an inert vegetable material such as sawdust or flour, invented by the…

Any of several related mining explosives having ammonium nitrate as the principal ingredient.

An explosive of the ammonium nitrate class.

colloquial or slang. Nitro-glycerine or gelignite.

A high explosive composed of three parts of ammonium nitrate and one part of aluminium.

Any of various high explosives composed essentially of a chlorate, a fatty oil, and one or more nitro-aromatic compounds, e.g. dinitrotoluene.

Any of three isomeric nitro derivatives, CH3C6H2(NO2)3, of toluene, esp. the 2,4,6-isomer, used as a high explosive that is relatively insensitive…

A variety of dynamite having an inert base of borax and salt.

Trinitrotoluene used as an explosive.

in the same sense.

= trinitrotoluene, n.

A compound formed from three molecules of nitric acid, HNO3, by the replacement of the three hydrogen atoms by a trivalent element or radical; e.g…

= trinitrotoluene, n.

slang = nitroglycerine, n.

A high explosive consisting of a mixture of trinitrotoluene (T.N.T.) and ammonium nitrate.

A colourless crystalline substance, (CH2·N·NO2)3, used as a high explosive; also called RDX.

= cyclonite, n.

An explosive device which uses liquid oxygen as an oxidant (see quot. 1946).

a crystalline solid, C(CH2NO3)4, used as a high explosive and also medically as a vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris; abbreviated PETN.

A high explosive, hexanitrodiphenylamine, [C6H2(NO2)3]2NH.

An orange-yellow dye colour; see also quot. 1940.

Gelignite.

A crystalline heterocyclic nitrogen-containing compound used as a high explosive. Also called cyclonite, hexogen.