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Melinite, mā′lin-īt, n. an explosive of great force obtained from picric acid.

You see, we have six ships here in line abreast, and twelve guns, each throwing a melinite shell of not less than a hundred pounds, are trained on the face of the building.

They’d have to invent a rocket apparatus for shying melinite shells aloft.”

The fort was used as a target for 8-in. shell of five calibres length containing large charges of melinite.

The vibration will cause any unstable substance such as melinite to explode.”