A coal-mine explosive of the Ammonal type made by the Roburite Explosives Co.
Doubtless they mean well, but their habit of exploding large quantities of ammonal at uncertain hours and places does not endear them to the frenzied onlookers, who spend the next hour plucking boulders from their eyes.
It must be remembered that neither of our warriors had a rifle, and that bombs and ammonal charges are not weapons with which to tackle a man you can touch.
An attempt was made to blow an assembly trench for the troops detailed for the attack on the Green line by means of tubes of ammonal buried in a shallow trench cut through the surface of the soil.
The ammonal was to be used to blow in the dug-out entrances, while the petrol was to be hurled down the stairs, followed by the phosphorus bomb, which caused the dug-out to catch fire.
Of these, 4 ammonal charges, 8 phosphorus bombs, and 2 tins of petrol were allotted to a certain dug-out known to be used as an officers' mess and offices.
The ammonal was discharged successfully, but the results were disappointing.
The sound of the explosion of Mills bombs thrown down the stairways had not died away before rifle-firing and bomb-throwing up the staircase was resumed, and silence was not obtained until the mobile charges of ammonal were exploded.
The Bartlett Jack was designed to drive iron pipes loaded with tin canisters of ammonal (containing two lb.
In this instance the labour of carrying the pipes and ammonal up to the line, and of working the task, proved incommensurate with the results obtained.
The first party found some thick wire, placed their ammonal tubes and successfully blew several gaps.
During a raid of the 4th Lincolnshires in October it was our duty to cause a diversion by blowing up some tubes of ammonal in the Boche wire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ammonal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
