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
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.
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