Our greatest trial was the German canister--a two-gallon drum with a cylinder inside containing about two pounds of an explosive called ammonal that looked like salmon paste, smelled like marzipan and, when it went off, sounded like the Day of Judgement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

They were to carry 6-feet tubes full of ammonal for blowing gaps in the wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference

As the flames reached the cordite and ammonal there was a colossal and continuing noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

Hickman went out at 8.0 p.m. and reported that the gaps were good, and that the ammonal tubes which the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference

Several dug-outs were bombed, and in some cases set on fire, one being blown up by the Royal Engineers with an ammonal tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference

Quickly we drove the camels off the open road into the bush-speckled ground, where their irregular colouring would not be marked by the enemy airmen; for the loads of blasting gelatine, my favourite and most powerful explosive, and the many ammonal-filled shells of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

Tommy used to manufacture out of jam tins, ammonal, and mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Top] Reference

"Nothin 'wrong with that there ammonal," remarked the Sapper professionally.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference

It must be remembered that neither of our warriors had a rifle, and that bombs and ammonal charges are not weapons with which to tackle a man you can touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference

Powdered aluminum is used for the production of high temperatures in the Thermite process, and is a constituent of the explosive, ammonal, and of aluminum paints.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

Doubtless they mean well, but their habit of exploding large quantities of ammonal at uncertain hours and places does not endear them to the frenzied onlookers, who spend the next hour plucking boulders from their eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference

In the general confusion and darkness he got parted from the rest of the gallant band, and found himself in a bit of trench alone save for a large and morose sapper who was tenderly nursing a mobile charge of several pounds of ammonal.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference

The country was flat and desolate; periodically the ground would shake and tremble, and in No Man's Land chalk and rubble and the salmon-pink fumes of ammonal would shoot upwards, showing that the men of the underworld still carried on.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference