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dynamite

Explosive consisting of a mixture of nitroglycerine and diatomaceous earth (diatomite, an absorbent, chalklike material). It was first devised by Alfred Nobel.



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AN Officer of the Government, with a great outfit of mule-waggons loaded with balloons, kites, dynamite bombs, and electrical apparatus, halted in the midst of a desert, where there had been no rain for ten years, and set up a camp.
And the four of us landed on the little beach and set up housekeeping among the coconuts with a larder full of dynamite and square-face.
As the sand is being poured into the well-hole, quantities of dynamite can also be thrown in
 
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