Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunnite
Literary usage of Dunnite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Naval Ordnance and Gunnery: Including Close-order Infantry by Hobart Cole Ramsey (1918)
"It includes all the various forms of high explosives used in the Navy, such as
Gun-Cotton, Explosive "D" (dunnite); Trinitrotoluol (TNT); ..."
2. Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery by William Freeland Fullam, Thomas Charles Hart (1905)
"(2) An account of its action, in the experiments at Sandy Hook, will be found in
the chapter on " Penetration of Projectiles." 72. dunnite. ..."
3. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1901)
"The armour-piercing shell, carrying sixty pounds of dunnite, was next fired at
one of ... It had been the intention to fire alternate shots of dunnite and ..."
4. High-explosive Shell Manufacture: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Forging by Douglas Thomas Hamilton (1916)
"dunnite is not a sensitive explosive; consequently, quite a heavy detonating
charge is used. The detonating composition is made of picric acid in various ..."
5. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"... which are practi ^ all nitrocellulose. Ammonium picrate is used in shells in
place of picric acid. In _^ US this bursting charge is styled dunnite, ..."
6. Fundamentals of Military Service by Lincoln Clarke Andrews, Leonard Wood (1916)
"... and later of dunnite, for bursting charges, it was found that the shot could
be exploded, and all armor piercing projectiles are now loaded with the ..."