Definition of Maximite

1. a powerful explosive [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maximite

maximining
maximinned
maximinning
maximins
maximisable
maximisation
maximisations
maximise
maximised
maximiser
maximisers
maximises
maximising
maximist
maximists
maximite (current term)
maximites
maximizable
maximization
maximizations
maximize
maximized
maximizer
maximizers
maximizes
maximizing
maxims
maximum
maximum-security
maximum and minimum thermometer

Literary usage of Maximite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nitro-explosives: A Practical Treatise Concerning the Properties by Percy Gerald Sanford (1906)
"... Troisdorf — maximite—Picric Acid Powders, &c., &c. THE progress made in recent years in the manufacture of smokeless powders has been very great. ..."

2. Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery by William Freeland Fullam, Thomas Charles Hart (1905)
"So far as experimented with, maximite appears to have excellent chemical ... As a bursting charge for shells it promises to rival maximite when used with a ..."

3. Our Wonderful Progress: The World's Triumphant Knowledge and Works : a Vast by Trumbull White (1902)
"Had not maximite been shortened nearly two inches and burst open at the side, and some of the maximite was forced through the aperture and the projectile ..."

4. Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim (1915)
"Twelve-inch projectiles charged with maximite were repeatedly fired through ... Although maximite was fifty per cent. stronger than ordinary dynamite, ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1905)
"Mr. Maxim is best known as the inventor of "maximite" (qv), the first high explosive bursting charge ever successfully employed in armor-piercing ..."

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