The French high-explosive shell obus torpille or obus a melinite was adopted in 1886.
The French melinite and the Italian pertite are believed to be forms of picric acid.
That shell will be cherished after extraction of its fuse and melinite charge.
With melinite you know the worst at once; it doesn't hang round like boxes of ammunition, for instance.
Fifteen boxes of melinite delayed him but a moment.
And with it all there is themelinite and the shrapnel.
And here are we with the enemy all round us, splashingmelinite among us in most hours of the day, and for the best part of a month we have not even had any definite news about the men for whom we must wait to get out of it.
Perhaps it was melinite that he employed for the massacre of the innocents of New Guinea, not dynamite.
You see, we have six ships here in line abreast, and twelve guns, each throwing a melinite shell of not less than a hundred pounds, are trained on the face of the building.
If we could only manage to drop a hundred-pound melinite shell into the right place, it would do a great deal.
Shrapnel screamed all around, and meliniteshells made the earth shake.
Lyddite and melinite swept like hail across the thin line of intrepid horsemen.
Melinite as at present used is said to be a perfectly safe explosive, both as regards manufacture, handling, and storage.
Footnote A: Schimose, the Japanese powder, is stated to be identical with Lyddite and Melinite (Chem.
Melinite has a yellow colour, is almost without crystalline appearance, and when ignited by a flame or heated wire, it burns with a reddish-yellow flame, giving off copious volumes of black smoke.
The French claim, however, that the original invention has been so modified and perfected that the melinite of to-day cannot be recognised in the earlier product.
The next instant the air is shaken with a violence comparable to that which would be caused by the explosion of a magazine of melinite or dynamite, Back Cup Island trembles to its very foundations.
The best place to land is on the west coast formerly occupied by the colony of Bermudan fishers; but it would first be advisable to effect a breach in the side of the cavern by means of the most powerful melinite shells.
It is only two days since they were in my cottage--chiselling out the melinite from a complete "Long Tom" shell which alighted in my old Scot's garden.
The war-balloons moved slowly forward in a straight line at an elevation of four thousand feet, sweeping the Moslem host from van to rear with a ceaseless hail of melinite and cyanogen bombs.
There was not a foot of ground that was not covered as with a web by the shrapnel and melinite shells.
Then they burrow upwards a bit, and put in a tremendous charge of explosive, melinite or something like that, and fix an electric wire.
The French shells were terribly devastating; the reek ofmelinite poisoned the air.
Into the midst of the surging, terrified crowds that congested the streets on each side of the Thames, shells filled with melinite dropped, and, bursting, blew hundreds of despairing Londoners to atoms.
In the course of a quarter of an hour many streets were impassable, owing to the fallen buildings, and in dozens of places the explosion of the melinite shells had set on fire the ruined houses.
Melinite had been projected into them, exploding with devastating effect, and demolishing the buildings, which fell like packs of cards.
From end to end Grainger Street was swept by French melinite shells, which, bursting in rapid succession, filled the air with tiny flying fragments, each as fatal as a bullet fired from a rifle.
It was a huge and curiously-shaped air-ship, and was to be used for dropping great charges of melinite and steel bombs filled with picric acid into the handsome historic city of Edinburgh!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "melinite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dynamite; explosive; powder
