Co-op mix

noun

A mixture of sodium chlorate and nitrobenzene used in making improvised bombs during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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nounCo-op mix (uncountable)
  1. IrelandUKuncountableA mixture of sodium chlorate and nitrobenzene used in making improvised bombs during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

    Disrupting Co-op mix devices by burning off the mixture by the use of low-velocity bullets proved ineffective […]

    2008, A. R. Oppenheimer, IRA, The Bombs and the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity
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    We found one once, 550lbs of Co-Op mix — and we found the firing position, on our side of the border. So I stood on this bloody thing […]

    1985, Desmond Hamill, Pig in the Middle: The Army in Northern Ireland, 1969-1984, page 198
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