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/tɹˈɪnaɪtɹˌəʊtəljˌuːiːn/
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NOUN
- explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene
How To Use trinitrotoluene In A Sentence
- Where destruction pure and simple is desired, the shell is charged with a high explosive such as picric acid or T.N.T., the colloquial abbreviation for the devastating agent scientifically known as "Trinitrotoluene," the base of which, in common with all the high explosives used by the different powers and variously known as lyddite, melinite, cheddite, and so forth, is picric acid. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
- Where destruction pure and simple is desired, the shell is charged with a high explosive such as picric acid or T.N.T., the colloquial abbreviation for the devastating agent scientifically known as "Trinitrotoluene," the base of which, in common with all the high explosives used by the different powers and variously known as lyddite, melinite, cheddite, and so forth, is picric acid. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
- Such terrible explosives as trinitrotoluene occasionally mentioned in the published war reports, as well as many others, have as the principal agent of destructive force guncotton, which is ordinary raw cotton or cellulose treated with nitric or sulphuric acid, though there are, of course, other chemicals used in compounding the various forms of deadly explosives. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
- In combination with nitric acid, toluene gives trinitrotoluene.
- Diagnostic criteria and principles of management of occupational chronic trinitrotoluene poisoning.
- Diagnostic criteria and principles of management of occupational trinitrotoluene cataract.
- Diagnostic criteria and principles of management of occupational chronic trinitrotoluene poisoning.
- A yellow crystalline compound, C6H 3(N 3O 2) 3, derived from trinitrotoluene and used as an explosive.
- Nitrogen is used to make a variety of explosives including ammonium nitrate, nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, and trinitrotoluene (TNT). Nitrogen
- Where destruction pure and simple is desired, the shell is charged with a high explosive such as picric acid or T.N.T., the colloquial abbreviation for the devastating agent scientifically known as "Trinitrotoluene," the base of which, in common with all the high explosives used by the different powers and variously known as lyddite, melinite, cheddite, and so forth, is picric acid. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War