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- noun organic chemistry Any of several
nitro derivatives oftoluene ; they have a number of industrial uses, and those with multiple nitro groups areexplosive
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Almost all the senior executives had been purged and subsequently tried as class A war criminals since Morozumi had been revamped during the mid forties, becoming one of the leading producers of tri-nitrotoluene for the war effort.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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