Lexicographical Neighbors of Maximite
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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