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n. An explosive consisting chiefly of picric acid.

n. An explosive consisting mostly of picric acid

n. A high explosive consisting principally of picric acid, used as a shell explosive in the British service; -- so named from the proving grounds at Lydd, England.

n. An explosive, consisting of picric acid melted and cast into a shell. It is difficult to detonate.

"Where destruction pure and simple is desired, the shell is charged with a high explosive such as picric acid or T.N.T., the colloquial abbreviation for the devastating agent scientifically known as "Trinitrotoluene," the base of which, in common with all the high explosives used by the different powers and variously known as lyddite, melinite, cheddite, and so forth, is picric acid."

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