carbonite

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.

   “He was pleased with bellite, he found that carbonite made more fumes than bellite, but the explosive he liked best was ammonite.”

2. isim An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpetre, sulfur, and kieselguhr.
3. isim A naturally occurring carbonaceous material formed from coal, natural coke.

   “In some Scottish localities, in the neighbourhood of trap dykes, coal is found to have been changed to coke ("carbonite"). Similar effects have been noticed (1882) in Midlothian, Chesterfield Co., Va., where the carbonite seam is 15 feet thick.”