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- noun Alternative spelling of
thermite .
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Examples
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What's really amazing is when he gets into why seizing liquids won't keep explosives off of planes, describing how you could make undetectable thermit canes, exploding baby-powder, deadly laptop batteries -- even explosive clothes.
Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006
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He didn't tell people about it though: that he'd slung a thermit grenade with too much vigor and fallen onto a rock and rolled downhill until he thought he was going to be gassed, but he wasn't.
Lucifer's Hammer Niven, Larry 1977
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He'd carried some extra gasoline and thermit on the deck.
Lucifer's Hammer Niven, Larry 1977
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The thermit bombs are coming along, but the fuses have to be made.
Lucifer's Hammer Niven, Larry 1977
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The amount of thermit required is calculated from the wax used.
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The charge of thermit is added by placing a few handfuls over the refractory sand and then pouring in the balance required.
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To this quantity of thermit should be added I per cent of pure manganese, 1 per cent nickel thermit and 15 per cent of steel punchings.
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The number of pounds of wax required for this filling multiplied by 25 will give the number of pounds of thermit to be used.
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Half a teaspoonful of ignition powder is placed on top of the thermit charge and ignited with a storm match or piece of red hot iron.
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It is necessary, when more than 10 pounds of thermit will be used, to mix steel punchings not exceeding 3/8 inch diameter by 1/8 inch thick with the powder in order to sufficiently retard the intensity of the reaction.
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