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ammonal

UK/ˈa.mə.nal/

ammonal noun: an explosive made up of ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene, and aluminium powder.

Noun

ammonal (plural ammonals)

  1. An explosive made up of ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene, and aluminium powder.
    • Our greatest trial was the German canister. It was a two-gallon drum with a cylinder containing about two pounds of an explosive called ammonal that looked like salmon paste, smelled like marzipan, and when it went off sounded like the Day of judgment.1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XVIII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 246

ammonal meaning in Tamil

ammonal in Tamil

அமோனால், கனிம மிகு சிறுநீர், அமோனல்

Forms of ammonal

pluralammonals

Origin of ammonal

From ammon(ium) + al(uminium).

Questions about ammonal

What does ammonal mean?
Ammonal means an explosive made up of ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene, and aluminium powder.
What is ammonal in Tamil?
Ammonal in Tamil is அமோனால், கனிம மிகு சிறுநீர், அமோனல். See Ammonal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ammonal?
Ammonal is a noun.
How do you pronounce ammonal?
Ammonal is pronounced /ˈa.mə.nal/ (UK).
What is the plural of ammonal?
The plural of ammonal is ammonals.

Words near ammonal in the dictionary

  1. ammolites
  2. Ammon
  3. Ammon's horn
  4. Ammon's law
  5. ammonaemia
  6. ammonal
  7. ammonals
  8. ammonemia
  9. ammonemias
  10. ammonemic
  11. ammonia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ammonal (page history and authors); ammonal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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