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melinite

/mel-uh-nahyt/US // ˈmɛl əˌnaɪt //UK // (ˈmɛlɪˌnaɪt) //

瓜尔尼特,瓜子,瓜尔尼诺,瓜尔达斯

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chemistry.

    • : a high explosive containing picric acid.

Examples

  • Pg 120 The whole place was dust and thunder and the half-acrid, half-fat, all-sickly smell of melinite.

  • That shell will be cherished after extraction of its fuse and melinite charge.

  • Shrapnel screamed all around, and melinite shells made the earth shake.

  • Cellars may give protection from fire or melinite; but they are worse than death traps against the heavy fumes of poisonous gas.

  • Also the enemy fired a new kind of shell, believed to be melinite, which stifles a man to death and does not hit one at all.