Usually means: Explosive made from nitroglycerin and absorbents.
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▸ noun:  An explosive mixture of nitroglycerine and nitrate absorbed onto a base of wood pulp.

Similar:
gelly, lithofracteur, incendigel, igniter, dynamite, powder, incendijel, blastine, napalm, nitrostarch, more...

Opposite:
dynamite

Types:
dynamite, TNT, C4, plastic explosive, more...

Adjectives:
enough, commercial, explosive, unstable, nough, much

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Similar:
gelly, lithofracteur, incendigel, igniter, dynamite, powder, incendijel, blastine, napalm, nitrostarch, more...

Opposite:
dynamite

Types:
dynamite, TNT, C4, plastic explosive, more...

Adjectives:
enough, commercial, explosive, unstable, nough, much



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