The more important picric powders are melinite, believed to be a mixture of fused picric acid and gun-cotton; lyddite, the British service explosive, and shimose, the Japanese powder, both supposed to be identical with the original melinite; Brugere's powder, a mixture of 54 parts of ammonium picrate and 45 parts of saltpetre; Designolle's powder, composed of potassium picrate, saltpetre and charcoal; and emmensite, invented by Stephen Emmens, of the United States. [Please select]
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When the howitzers with their nice little balls of lyddite physic get opening their bouquets to-morrow--" "Who says to-morrow. [Please select]
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[Footnote A: Schimose, the Japanese powder, is stated to be identical with Lyddite and Melinite (_Chem.) [Please select]
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] Distillers of corrosives, gunners throwing lyddite, bombers employing dynamite: what can all these violent creatures, so well equipped for battle, do beyond committing slaughter. [Please select]
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