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trinitrotoluene

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun TNT.

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  • noun A highly explosive yellow crystalline substance, (CH3C6H2(NO2)3), obtained by reacting nitric acid with toluene

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  • noun explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene

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Examples

  • This aerial torpedo is a small missile carrying a charge of high explosive, such as trinitrotoluene, and depends for its detonation upon impact or a time fuse.

    Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

  • Once, even, Garcia had to rip the sticky bomb—it did have half a pound of trinitrotoluene in it—from her hands and toss it away, hunching one shoulder against the blast as he fell back to earth.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Once, even, Garcia had to rip the sticky bomb—it did have half a pound of trinitrotoluene in it—from her hands and toss it away, hunching one shoulder against the blast as he fell back to earth.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Nitrogen is used to make a variety of explosives including ammonium nitrate, nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, and trinitrotoluene (TNT).

    Nitrogen 2009

  • He'd gone full gamut since I'd been born, from refusing to pay anyone for anything he couldn't learn to do himself — learning to repair transmissions and raise rabbits for his eventual move to Alaska, and to safely stockpile trinitrotoluene and blasting caps in sealed fifty-five-gallon drums for the inevitable “mud-people takeover,” as he and Mitch referred to it.

    O Saddam! 2008

  • He'd gone full gamut since I'd been born, from refusing to pay anyone for anything he couldn't learn to do himself — learning to repair transmissions and raise rabbits for his eventual move to Alaska, and to safely stockpile trinitrotoluene and blasting caps in sealed fifty-five-gallon drums for the inevitable “mud-people takeover,” as he and Mitch referred to it.

    O Saddam! Rusty Barnes 2008

  • For instance, TnT is different from TNT TnT often stands for Troponin T while TNT often stands for trinitrotoluene.

    davidrothman.net » Twease (Third-party PubMed Tool) 2007

  • For instance, TnT is different from TNT TnT often stands for Troponin T while TNT often stands for trinitrotoluene.

    davidrothman.net » 2007 » May 2007

  • It was traveling at five thousand feet per second away from the epicenter of a trinitrotoluene explosion.

    One Shot Child, Lee 2005

  • It stands for the explosive trinitrotoluene, as well as for Turner Network Television.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

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