lyddite
Americannoun
noun
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an explosive consisting chiefly of fused picric acid
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a dense black variety of chert, formerly used as a touchstone
Etymology
Origin of lyddite
1885–90; named after Lydd, borough in SE England near the site where it was first tested; see -ite 1
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As he has said, it is a desperate night of driving sleet and swirling blackness, illuminated only with the malignant coruscations of lyddite bursting-charges.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
Their 12-pounders began to snort and to roar, and lyddite whizzed and shrieked over to Grobler's Hill and in the neighbourhood of Fort Wylie.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke
The long mound of raw red earth, crusted with greenish-yellow streaks of lyddite from the bursting-charges, rises now immediately before him.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
There is hardly any food, the remaining bags of biscuits are yellow from the lyddite fumes, so is everything, damp and yellow.
From In the Shadow of Death by P. H. Kritzinger
The first thing I saw on my arrival was a cart containing ten wounded men, who had just been brought in from the fighting line, all yellow with lyddite.
From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by P. Van Breda
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