Meanings
- rareuncountableA type of safety explosive, made from nitroglycerine mixed with magnesium sulfate and sawdust, that could be used where firedamp was present
2007 https://zh.scribd.com/document/272097364/GBT1220-2007-Stainless-Steel-Bars It is mainly used in the chemical facilities producing nitric acid and grisoutite.
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1889-90 https://mininginstitute.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/NEIMME%20Vol%2039.pdf It will be seen that all the explosives stemmed with coal-dust, gas being absent, produced flame except grisoutite.
1918 http://gluedideas.com/content-collection/encyclopedia-americana-10/Explosives_P6.html Among the explosives designed to meet such conditions and styled abroad safety or flameless explosives are: Ammonite; amvis, aphosite; bellite; benedite; britainite; cambrite; car bonite; Casteau's explosives; dalunenite; Fa vier's explosive; fractorite; Geserick's powder; grisoutine; grisoutite; nitroferrite; progressite; roburite; securite; westphalite ; wetterdyna mite.
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grisoutite. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grisoutite
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