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nitramine

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ni⋅tra⋅mine

  [nahy-truh-meen, nahy-tram-in]
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–noun Chemistry.
1. any of a class of compounds containing the nitramino group.
2. tetryl.
Origin:
nitr- + amine

tet⋅ryl

  [te-tril]
–noun Chemistry.
a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C7H5N5O8, used as a chemical indicator and as a detonator and bursting charge in small-caliber shells.
Also, tetralite.
Also called nitramine, trinitrophenylmethylnitramine.

Origin:
1855–60; tetr- + -yl
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nitramine

noun
a yellow crystalline explosive solid that is used in detonators [syn: tetryl] 
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