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carbonites

carbonites is the plural of carbonite.

Meaning of carbonite

Noun

carbonite (countable and uncountable, plural carbonites)

  1. An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
    • He was pleased with bellite, he found that carbonite made more fumes than bellite, but the explosive he liked best was ammonite.1898, Federated Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, volume 14, page 398
  2. An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpetre, sulfur, and kieselguhr.
  3. A naturally occurring carbonaceous material formed from coal, natural coke.
    • In some Scottish localities, in the neighbourhood of trap dykes, coal is found to have been changed to coke ("carbonite"). Similar effects have been noticed (1882) in Midlothian, Chesterfield Co., Va., where the carbonite seam is 15 feet thick.1889, Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Knapp, Chemical Technology, page 119

Questions about carbonites

What is carbonites the plural of?
Carbonites is the plural of carbonite.

Words near carbonites in the dictionary

  1. carboniser
  2. carbonisers
  3. carbonises
  4. carbonising
  5. carbonite
  6. carbonites
  7. carbonitic
  8. carbonitride
  9. carbonitrided
  10. carbonitrides
  11. carbonitriding

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