ammonal

English

Etymology

From ammon(ium) + al(uminium).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mə.nal/

Noun

ammonal (plural ammonals)

1. An explosive made up of ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene, and aluminium powder.
   • 1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XVIII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 246:

     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.

Translations

explosive

• Catalan: amonal (ca) m
• Irish: amónal m
• Italian: ammonal m
• Polish: amonal (pl) m
• Portuguese: amonal m
• Spanish: amonal m

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ammonal.

Noun

ammonal m (invariable)

1. ammonal