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melinite

[ mel-uh-nahyt ]

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. a high explosive containing picric acid.


melinite

/ ˈmɛlɪˌnaɪt /

noun

  1. a high explosive made from picric acid
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of melinite1

1885–90; < French mélinite < Greek mḗlin ( os ) made of apples (derivative of mêlon apple) + French -ite -ite 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of melinite1

C19: via French from Greek mēlinos (colour) of a quince, from mēlon fruit, quince
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Example Sentences

Pg 120 The whole place was dust and thunder and the half-acrid, half-fat, all-sickly smell of melinite.

That shell will be cherished after extraction of its fuse and melinite charge.

Shrapnel screamed all around, and melinite shells made the earth shake.

Cellars may give protection from fire or melinite; but they are worse than death traps against the heavy fumes of poisonous gas.

Also the enemy fired a new kind of shell, believed to be melinite, which stifles a man to death and does not hit one at all.

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