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  • noun organic chemistry Any of several nitro derivatives of toluene; they have a number of industrial uses, and those with multiple nitro groups are explosive

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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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