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TNT

1
or T.N.T.
  1. Chemistry. a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble, flammable solid, C 7 H 5 N 3 O 6 , derived from toluene by nitration, a high explosive unaffected by ordinary friction or shock: used chiefly in military and other explosive devices, and as an intermediate in the preparation of dye-stuffs and photographic chemicals.


TNT

2

abbreviation for

, Trademark.
  1. Turner Network Television: a cable television channel.

TNT

noun

  1. 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene; a yellow solid: used chiefly as a high explosive and is also an intermediate in the manufacture of dyestuffs. Formula: CH 3 C 6 H 2 (NO 2 ) 3


TNT

/ tē′ĕn-tē /

  1. Short for trinitrotoluene. A yellow, crystalline compound used mainly as an explosive. As it can only explode by means of a detonator and is not affected by shock, it is safe to handle and is used especially in munitions and for demolitions. Chemical formula: C 7 H 5 N 3 O 6 .


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Origin of TNT1

First recorded in 1910–15

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It was later revived on TNT for four more seasons before the network announced its cancellation on May 10, 2013.

Dwyane knew he’d get made fun of on [TNT‘S] ‘Inside (the) NBA,’ but he still wore it and wore it well.

Weisberg: I was sitting in my hotel in Los Angeles and I was working on a show called Falling Skies on TNT.

TNT stepped in to save the show, and that decision, at least creatively, has paid off.

“We are going to need a lot of TNT of dynamite,” Nafis said, according to the complaint.

What could his thoughts have been, lying tied up on the living room floor waiting for twenty tons of TNT to go off?

The explosive device was of what later would be called nominal size, its force equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.

They make nitroglycerine, like all the thalassic peoples; they also make TNT and catastrophite, and propellants.

The mails carry letters every day that are so many packages of TNT should their contents be exploded by falling into wrong hands.

You fought wars, and then bigger and better wars, until you couldn't be satisfied with gunpowder and TNT any longer.

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