melinite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of melinite
1885–90; < French mélinite < Greek mḗlin ( os ) made of apples (derivative of mêlon apple) + French -ite -ite 1
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Eugene Turpin, 78, inventor of melinite;* of pulmonary congestion, at Pontoise, France.
From Time Magazine Archive
The French claim, however, that the original invention has been so modified and perfected that the melinite of to-day cannot be recognised in the earlier product.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford
The latter cannon, however, only used cordite, whereas the 5-inch howitzer shells are filled with a picric compound resembling M. Turpin's melinite.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
That shell will be cherished after extraction of its fuse and melinite charge.
From Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith by H. H. S. (Henry Hiram Steere) Pearse
They’d have to invent a rocket apparatus for shying melinite shells aloft.”
From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang
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