trinitrotoluol love

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  • noun trinitrotoluene; TNT

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Examples

  • If 1 kiloton of dynamite, or TNT trinitrotoluol, explodes, 4 × 1012 joules of energy are released.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • If 1 kiloton of dynamite, or TNT trinitrotoluol, explodes, 4 × 1012 joules of energy are released.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • If 1 kiloton of dynamite, or TNT trinitrotoluol, explodes, 4 × 1012 joules of energy are released.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • If 1 kiloton of dynamite, or TNT trinitrotoluol, explodes, 4 × 1012 joules of energy are released.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • I began to wonder if even trinitrotoluol could be ineffective at times.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 Various

  • Their release of atomic force was nearly 100 per cent, and each one of them was equal to many hundred tons of trinitrotoluol, which I had known in the First World War, five hundred years before, as "T.N.T."

    The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

  • They rushed at the periscopes in efforts to ram the submarine, and as they raced over the spot where the submarine had been at the rate of twenty-two knots or more an hour, they dropped huge containers, dubbed "ash cans", containing depth charges of trinitrotoluol.

    History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War Richard Joseph Beamish 1895

  • N.cessity did not call the phonograph into being, nor the incandescent light, but the high explosives, dynamite and T.N. T. (trinitrotoluol) met real wants.

    The Last Harvest John Burroughs 1879

  • It seemed to him that if he ran just a little farther he must surely find the house and the other things he was looking for; but he found nothing but more craters and more mountains of dirt; and little by little the horrible truth became clear to him, that all the way down the railroad track, as far as he could see or run, this gigantic trough extended, a valley of raw dirt with mountains on each side, crowned here and there with wheels and axles and iron trucks of blown-up freight-cars, and filled in the bottom with the deadly fumes of trinitrotoluol!

    Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

  • a few months the frightened family would lie awake at night and listen to trains rattling past, coming out from the explosives plant, piled to the tops with loads of trinitrotoluol, and such unpronounceable instruments of murder and destruction.

    Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

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