ammonal
English
Etymology
From ammon(ium) + al(uminium).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈa.mə.nal/
Noun
ammonal (plural ammonals)
- An explosive made up of ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene, and aluminium powder.
- 1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XVIII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 246:
- Our greatest trial was the German canister. It was a two-gallon drum with a cylinder containing about two pounds of an explosive called ammonal that looked like salmon paste, smelled like marzipan, and when it went off sounded like the Day of judgment.
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