trinitrotoluene

See also: trinitrotoluène

English

Etymology

From tri- +‎ nitro- +‎ toluene.

Noun

trinitrotoluene (plural trinitrotoluenes)

1. A highly explosive yellow crystalline substance, (CH₃C₆H₂(NO₂)₃), obtained by reacting nitric acid with toluene

Derived terms

• TNT

Translations

a highly explosive yellow crystalline substance

• Azerbaijani: trinitrotoluol, trotil, tol
• Bulgarian: тротил (trotil)
• Catalan: trinitrotoluè m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三硝基甲苯 (zh) (sānxiāojījiǎběn)

• Czech: trinitrotoluen m
• Finnish: trinitrotolueeni, trotyyli (fi)
• French: trinitrotoluène (fr) m
• German: Trinitrotoluol (de) n
• Hungarian: trinitrotoluol (hu)
• Irish: trínítreatolúéin f
• Italian: trinitrotoluene (it) m, tritolo (it) m
• Japanese: トリニトロトルエン (torinitorotoruen)
• Malay: trinitrotoluena
• Mongolian: тринитротолуол (trinitrotoluol), тротил (trotil)
• Polish: trotyl (pl) m
• Portuguese: trinitrotolueno m
• Russian: тринитротолуо́л (ru) m (trinitrotoluól), троти́л (ru) m (trotíl), тол (ru) m (tol)
• Sicilian: tritolu (scn) m, trinitrutulueni m
• Spanish: trinitrotolueno (es) m

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• German: ^{(please verify)} Trinitrotoluol (de), ^{(please verify)} stoßunempfindlicher Sprengstoff, ^{(please verify)} TNT (de)

Italian

Etymology

From tri- +‎ nitro- +‎ toluene, subseded the previous trinitrotoluolo. Compare tritolo.

Noun

trinitrotoluene m (plural trinitrotolueni)

1. (organic chemistry) trinitrotoluene