thermite

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
thermite /ˈθəːmʌɪt/ (also thermit /-mɪt/)

▶noun a mixture of finely powdered aluminium and iron oxide that produces a very high temperature on combustion, used in welding and for incendiary bombs.

– origin early 20th cent.: coined in Ger. from thermo- + -ite1.

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