carbonite

An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.

He was pleased with bellite, he found that carbonite made more fumes than bellite, but the explosive he liked best was ammonite.

Although this proved safe in the usual pit gas mixtures, yet it was found impossible to manipulate it, so another explosive, carbonite, made by the same firm, was tried. This was safe in small charges only ; improvements were made, and in September 1887 a carbonite consisting of saltpetre, cellulose, nitro-glycerine, and sulphuretted oil was found to be absolutely safe.

An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpetre, sulfur, and kieselguhr.

A naturally occurring carbonaceous material formed from coal, natural coke.

In some Scottish localities, in the neighbourhood of trap dykes, coal is found to have been changed to coke ("carbonite"). Similar effects have been noticed (1882) in Midlothian, Chesterfield Co., Va., where the carbonite seam is 15 feet thick.