Etymology

dunnite

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Today it means: Ammonium picrate, used as an explosive. Full definition →

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The story

From Dunn + -ite, after U.S. Army major Beverly Dunn, who developed it.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.