trotyl

[troh-til, -teel]

noun

Chemistry.

1. TNT.

trotyl

/ ˈtrəʊtɪl, -tiːl /

noun

1. another name for TNT

Word History and Origins

Origin of trotyl¹

First recorded in 1915–20; (trini)trot(oluene) + -yl

Word History and Origins

Origin of trotyl¹

C20: from ( _trini ) _trot ( _oluene ) + _-yl

Example Sentences

T.N.T. is trinitrotoluene or trotyl.

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Realizing that people could not be expected to use such a mouthful of a word, the chemists have suggested various pretty nicknames, trotyl, tritol, trinol, tolite and trilit, but the public, with the wilfulness it always shows in the matter of names, persists in calling it TNT, as though it were an author like G.B.S., or G.K.C, or F.P.A.

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The sea made the breach during a gale, our people helped with a little Trotyl, tides and storms did the rest.

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The first United States vessel to reach the lagoon found only charred remains of a landing stage and several buildings and, at the bottom of the lagoon, an incoherent mass of wreckage, a twisted and shattered chaos of steel plates and framework that might possibly have been a perfectly sound submarine, though sunken, had somebody not been warned in ample time to permit its destruction through the agency of trinitrotoluene, that enormously efficient modern explosive nicknamed by British military and naval experts "T.N.T.," and by the Germans "Trotyl."

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