trinitrotoluene
IPA: trˈɪnɪtroʊtoʊɫˈun
noun
- A highly explosive yellow crystalline substance, (CH₃C₆H₂(NO₂)₃), obtained by reacting nitric acid with toluene
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Examples of "trinitrotoluene" in Sentences
- He also built a new factory to purify trinitrotoluene.
- It should form a solid mass of trinitrotoluene crystals.
- Trinitrotoluene is the chemical explosive usually known as TNT.
- And the first entry links to Trinitrotoluene, an explosive chemical.
- I'd be inclined to spell out trinitrotoluene before the abbreviation.
- Explosives are measured in relation to tonnes of trinitrotoluene TNT .
- It stands for the explosive trinitrotoluene, as well as for Turner Network Television.
- It was traveling at five thousand feet per second away from the epicenter of a trinitrotoluene explosion.
- For instance, TnT is different from TNT TnT often stands for Troponin T while TNT often stands for trinitrotoluene.
- Nitrogen is used to make a variety of explosives including ammonium nitrate, nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, and trinitrotoluene (TNT).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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