Word: trinitrotuluol
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...Mont Blanc have doubtless been blown up in this war, and scores of costly collisions between vessels have occurred. But never has an explosion on board ship had the disastrous effect of this one. It is supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores, seems to have caused the blast to rake the city with peculiar effectiveness...
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