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pentolite

pentolite noun: a composite high explosive used for military and civilian purposes.

Noun

pentolite (uncountable)

  1. A composite high explosive used for military and civilian purposes.
    • Local people fear the pentolite, which is buried underground and is in an unknown number of places around the forest floor, could explode at any time and say it blocks full access to their land, puts them at risk and threatens the forest itself.2024 April 18, Beatriz Miranda, “‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about pentolite

What does pentolite mean?
Pentolite means a composite high explosive used for military and civilian purposes.
What part of speech is pentolite?
Pentolite is a noun.

Words near pentolite in the dictionary

  1. pentofuranoside
  2. pentofuranosides
  3. pentoic acid
  4. pentol
  5. pentolinium
  6. pentolite
  7. pentols
  8. pentomic
  9. pentomino
  10. pentominoes
  11. penton

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