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, Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, Penguin 2000, p. 161:
      Our greatest trial was the German canister – 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 Judgement.

Translations

Italian

Noun

ammonal m

  1. ammonal
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