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n. - Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.

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  • Motto for British traders: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try trinitrotoluene."
  • It was traveling at five thousand feet per second away from the epicenter of a trinitrotoluene explosion.
  • A recent analysis of the waters shows that the proportion of sapid ovaloid particles and sulphuretted trinitrotoluene is larger than ever.
  • He'd gone full gamut since I'd been born, from refusing to pay anyone for anything he couldn't learn to do himself — learning to repair transmissions and raise rabbits for his...
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