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Co-op mix

Co-op mix noun: a mixture of sodium chlorate and nitrobenzene used in making improvised bombs during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Noun

Co-op mix (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland, UK) A mixture of sodium chlorate and nitrobenzene used in making improvised bombs during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
    • We found one once, 550lbs of Co-Op mix — and we found the firing position, on our side of the border. So I stood on this bloody thing […]1985, Desmond Hamill, Pig in the Middle: The Army in Northern Ireland, 1969-1984, page 198
    • Disrupting Co-op mix devices by burning off the mixture by the use of low-velocity bullets proved ineffective […]2008, A. R. Oppenheimer, IRA, The Bombs and the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity

Questions about Co-op mix

What does Co-op mix mean?
Co-op mix means a mixture of sodium chlorate and nitrobenzene used in making improvised bombs during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
What part of speech is Co-op mix?
Co-op mix is a noun.

Words near Co-op mix in the dictionary

  1. co-occurrences
  2. co-occurring
  3. co-occurs
  4. co-official
  5. co-op
  6. Co-op mix
  7. co-oped
  8. co-operate
  9. co-operated
  10. co-operates
  11. co-operating

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