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Gmelinite
Gmelinite Gmel"in*ite, n. [Named after the German chemist Gmelin.] (Min.) A rhombohedral zeolitic mineral, related in form and composition to chabazite.

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- Melinite or Mélinite may refer to: Picric acid Jane Avril (1868–1943) La Mélinite, French cabaret star and can-can dancer This disambiguation page lists...
- "given to jerky movements and sudden contortions", she was nicknamed La Mélinite, after an explosive. She was born Jeanne Louise Beaudon on 9 June 1868...
- government adopted a mixture of picric acid and guncotton with the name Melinite. In 1888, Britain started manufacturing a very similar mixture in Lydd...
- archivist Boutonnet was convicted for selling plans of s**** that used melinite. The German military attaché in Paris in 1894 was Count Maximilian von...
- could deliver fifteen rounds per minute on its target, either shrapnel or melinite high-explosive, up to about 5 miles (8,500 m) away. Its firing rate could...
- out in the city. The Galilée and the Du Chayla bombarded the city with mélinite, an explosive substance containing picric acid that struck residential...
- government adopted a mixture of picric acid and guncotton under the name Melinite. In 1888, Britain started manufacturing a very similar mixture in Lydd...
- explosive based on picric acid – already used by France in the form of Melinite and by Britain in the form of Lyddite. Picric acid has an instability problem...
- could deliver fifteen rounds per minute on its target, either shrapnel or melinite high-explosive, up to about 8,500 m (5.3 mi) away. Its firing rate could...
- inherently weak at the base thus sometimes letting hot gases detonate the melinite inside the s****. Over 600 French 75mm guns were destro**** by premature...