English Explanatory Dictionary

Favier explosive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several explosive mixtures, chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene, used in mining.

Word forms

Favier explosive Favier explosives

Etymology

After the inventor, P. A. Favier, a Frenchman.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on F Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary