glyoxilin
(glaɪˈɒksɪlɪn)
Also -yline.
[? after glyoxylic (see glyoxal).]
The name of an explosive (see quots.).
| 1875 Ure's Dict. Arts, etc. (ed. 7) II. 321 Glyoxiline consists of a mixture of gun-cotton pulp and saltpetre converted into porous pellets, which are saturated with nitro-glycerine. 1883 Majendie in Fortn. Rev. May 645 Sir Frederick Abel's ‘glyoxilin’ (gun-cotton saturated with nitro-glycerine). |