lyddite


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lyddite /ˈlɪdʌɪt/
noun a high explosive containing picric acid, used by the British during the First World War.
– origin C19: named after Lydd, a town in Kent where the explosive was first tested, + -ite1.
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